זבחים ה׳:ז׳ - ה׳:ח׳

שחיטתן בכל מקום בעזרה – three portions were stated in the slaughtering of the [sacrifice of] well-being; one with the offspring of cattle, and one with sheep and one with a goat. In the first, it is written (Leviticus 3:2): “and slaughter it at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting,” and in the two after it, it is written (Leviticus 3:8): “It shall be slaughtered before the Tent of Meeting,” to make fit all the directions that are in the Temple courtyard, for the word לפני/before implies all that is before the Palace/ Hall, containing the golden altar.

לשני ימים ולילה אחד – for such is written regarding the offering of well-being (Leviticus 7:17): “What is then left of the flesh of the sacrifice shall be consumed in fire on the third day.”

והמעשר – the tithing of cattle.

ודמן טעון מתנה אחת – as it is not written with them (i.e., the first born offering, the tithe and the Passover sacrifice), the word סביב/surrounding , is not written with them, but rather, (Numbers 18:17): “you shall dash their blood against the altar,” regarding the first born [sacrifice]. But we derive these (i.e., the tithes and the Passover offering) from there, for it is not written [in Scripture], “and its blood,” but rather, “their blood” (ibid.).

כנגד היסוד – in a place where the base of the altar/YESOD is underneath, to exclude the southeast [corner] where the base of the altar is not there, as we have stated. But the offering of the firstling and the tithe and the Passover sacrifices require the base of the altar, as we derive by analogy from burnt offering/עולה through זריקה/casting, as It is written (Leviticus 4:7): “[and all the test of the bull’s blood he shall pour out] at the base of the altar of the burnt offering.’

שינה באכילתן – one from the other. Even though they compare them through the giving of blood.

הבכור נאכל לכהנים – as it is written (Numbers 18:18): “But their meat shall be yours: [it shall be yours like the breast of elevation offering and like the right thigh].”

והמעשר לכל אדם – that we did not find throughout the Torah that the Kohanim would have a part in it.

ונאכלין בכל העיר – as it is written (Deuteronomy 12:6): ‘And there you are to bring your burnt offerings and other sacrifices, your tithes…,” And it is taught in a Baraita that Scripture speaks of two [kinds of] tithes, one for the tithe of cattle, and one is the tithe of grain. And it is written in that Biblical verse, “and the firstlings of your herds and flocks.” But because it did not establish for them a separation, we learn from it that the tithe and the firstling are consumed throughout the city [of Jerusalem].

לשני ימים ולילה אחד – for regarding the firstling it states (in the Torah – Numbers 18:18): “But their meat shall be yours: it shall be yours like the breast of elevation offering [and like the right thigh], Scripture made a comparison [which rests on Biblical intimation by analogy] to the breast and the foreleg. Just as the breast and foreleg of the offering of well-being [is consumed] for two days and one night, so too the firstling for two days and one night, and the tithe is like the firstling.

למנוייו – to those who were assigned to the funds of its being taken, as it is written (Exodus 12:4): “you shall contribute [for the lamb] according to what each household will eat.”