## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 147

###### Sifrei Devarim 147:1
[Sifrei Devarim 147:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/147:1)

(דברים יז א) **לֹא תִזְבַּח לַה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ שׁוֹר וָשֶׂה**, רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר: יָכוֹל הַשּׁוֹחֵט חַטָּאת בַּדָּרוֹם יְהֵא עוֹבֵר בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **לֹא תִזְבַּח לַה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ שׁוֹר וָשֶׂה אֲשֶׁר יִהְיֶה בוֹ מוּם** – עַל מוּם עוֹבֵר בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה, וְאֵין הַשּׁוֹחֵט חַטָּאת בַּדָּרוֹם עוֹבֵר בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים: אַף הַשּׁוֹחֵט חַטָּאת בַּדָּרוֹם עוֹבֵר בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(Devarim 17:1) "You shall not sacrifice to the L-rd your G-d an ox or a sheep in which there is a blemish": R. Yehudah says: I might think that if one slaughtered a sin-offering in the south (instead of the north) he transgresses a negative commandment; it is, therefore, written "You shall not sacrifice to the L-rd your G-d a sin-offering in which there is a blemish. For (slaughtering a sin-offering with) a blemish he transgresses a negative commandment, but not for slaughtering it in the south. The sages say: Even for slaughtering a sin-offering in the south he transgresses a negative commandment.


###### Sifrei Devarim 147:2
[Sifrei Devarim 147:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/147:2)

יָכוֹל הַמַּקְדִּים קָדָשִׁים זֶה לָזֶה, עוֹלָה לְחַטָּאת, פֶּסַח לְתָמִיד, מוּסָפִים לִתְמִידִים – יְהֵא עוֹבֵר בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר (דברים יב יז): ״לֹא תוּכַל לֶאֱכֹל בִּשְׁעָרֶיךָ מַעְשַׂר דְּגָנְךָ תִּירֹשְׁךָ וְיִצְהָרֶךָ״; (דברים טז ה) ״לֹא תוּכַל לִזְבֹּחַ אֶת הַפֶּסַח בְּאַחַד שְׁעָרֶיךָ אֲשֶׁר ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ״; **לֹא תִזְבַּח לַה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ שׁוֹר וָשֶׂה אֲשֶׁר יִהְיֶה בוֹ מוּם** – עַל אֵלּוּ עוֹבֵר בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה, וְאֵין מַקְדִּים קָדָשִׁים זֶה לָזֶה עוֹבֵר בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
I might think that if one sacrificed (contrary to the prescribed order) a burnt-offering before a sin-offering, a Pesach offering before a daily offering (*tamid*), additional offerings (*mussafim*) before daily offerings, he transgresses a negative commandment; it is, therefore, written "You shall not sacrifice to the L-rd your G-d an ox or a sheep in which there is a blemish." For *this* he transgresses a negative commandment and not for the others.


###### Sifrei Devarim 147:3
[Sifrei Devarim 147:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/147:3)

**אֲשֶׁר יִהְיֶה בּוֹ מוּם**, אֵין לִי אֶלָּא שֶׁנּוֹלַד תָּם וְנַעֲשָׂה בַּעַל מוּם, נוֹלַד בַּעַל מוּם מִמְּעֵי אִמּוֹ מִנַּיִן? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **כֹּל דָּבָר רָע**.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"in which there is a blemish": This tells me only of a blemish. Whence do I derive (the same for) one that is scrofulous, warty, or scabbied? From "any unseemly thing."


###### Sifrei Devarim 147:4
[Sifrei Devarim 147:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/147:4)

מִנַּיִן בַּעַל גָּרָב, בַּעַל יַבֶּלֶת וּבַעַל חֲזָזִית? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **מוּם כֹּל דָּבָר רָע**. מִנַּיִן לְזָקֵן וְחוֹלֶה וּמְזֹהָם? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **שׁוֹר וָשֶׂה... כֹּל דָּבָר רָע**.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
Whence do I derive (the same for) one that is sick, old, or malodorous? From "any unseemly thing."


###### Sifrei Devarim 147:5
[Sifrei Devarim 147:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/147:5)

מִנַּיִן לַקֳּדָשִׁים שֶׁשְּׁחָטָם חוּץ לִזְמַנָּם וְחוּץ לִמְקוֹמָם, שֶׁעוֹבֵר בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **דָּבָר**, שֶׁתָּלוּי בְּדָבָר.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
And whence is it derived that if one slaughtered them outside of their (proper) time or place that he transgresses a negative commandment? From "any *thing* (*davar*)," connoting anything which is dependent upon speech (*dibbur* [like "*davar*"], e.g., if one says: "I am slaughtering to perform this and this sacrificial service outside of its time or place").


###### Sifrei Devarim 147:6
[Sifrei Devarim 147:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/147:6)

מִנַּיִן לְרוֹבֵעַ וְנִרְבָּע וּמוּקְצֶה וְנֶעֱבָד? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **תּוֹעֲבַת ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ הוּא**. מִנַּיִן לְאֶתְנָן וּמְחִיר וְכִלְאַיִם וּטְרֵפָה וְיוֹצֵא דֹפֶן? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **כִּי תוֹעֲבַת**. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר: הִיא תּוֹעֵבָה וְאֵין הַוָּלָד תּוֹעֵבָה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
And whence do I derive (the same for) an animal which was the active or the passive agent in sodomy, or set aside for idolatry, or served idolatrously, or received as a harlot's hire or the exchange of a dog, or *kilayim* (hybrid), or *treifah*, or of Caesarian birth? From "for it is the abomination of the L-rd your G-d." R. Yehoshua says: "*it*" is an abomination, but its offspring is not an abomination.


###### Sifrei Devarim 147:7
[Sifrei Devarim 147:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/147:7)

רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹמֵר: לְפִי שֶׁמָּצִינוּ בְּרוֹבֵעַ וְנִרְבָּע שֶׁהֵם פְּסוּלִים בִּבְהֵמָה, יָכוֹל אַף בָּאָדָם? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **הוּא**; בַּזֶּבַח דִּבַּרְתִּי, וְלֹא דִּבַּרְתִּי בַּזּוֹבֵחַ.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
R. Shimon says: I might think that just as being the active or passive agent of sodomy renders an animal unfit as an offering, so it renders a Cohein unfit to offer a sacrifice; it is, therefore, written "for *it* is the abomination of the L-rd your G-d" — the reference is to the *sacrifice*, and not to the sacrificer.