MISHNAH. WHATEVER IS MORE CONSTANT THAN ANOTHER TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER THE OTHER. THE DAILY OFFERINGS (1) PRECEDE THE ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS; (2) THE ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS OF THE SABBATH PRECEDE THE ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS OF NEW MOON; (3) THE ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS OF NEW MOON PRECEDE THE ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS OF NEW YEAR; FOR IT IS SAID, [YE SHALL OFFER THESE] BESIDE THE BURNTOFFERING OF THE MORNING, WHICH IS FOR A CONTINUAL BURNT-OFFERING. (4) GEMARA. Whence do we know it? [You ask] Whence do we know it: surely he [the Tanna] states the reason, viz., ‘BESIDE THE BURNT-OFFERING OF THE MORNING’? — Perhaps only the daily-offerings precede the additional offerings, because they are constant; how do we know that additionalofferings [precede] [less frequent] additionalofferings? (5) — Said R. Elai, Because Scripture states, Like these ye shall offer daily, for seven days: (6) [instead of] ‘these’, ‘like these’ [is written]. (7) But this is required for its own purpose? (8) — If so, (9) let [Scripture] write, ‘These ye shall offer daily’. (10) If it wrote, ‘These ye shall offer daily for seven days’, I would think [that] these [are offered] in the seven days? (11) — ‘Daily’ is written. (12) Yet I might still interpret. These [ye shall offer] for the day, (13) but on the remaining days I could not know how many? (14) — Scripture says, Ye shall offer, [which implies] that all your offerings must be alike. (15) Abaye said: [We learn it] from that very text. (16) For if so, (17) let Scripture say ‘beside the burnt-offering of the morning’, and then be silent; why state, which is for a continual burnt-offering? To teach that that which is more constant takes precedence. (18) MISHNAH. WHATEVER IS MORE SACRED THAN ANOTHER PRECEDES THAT OTHER. THE BLOOD OF A SIN-OFFERING PRECEDES THE BLOOD OF A BURNT-OFFERING, (19) BECAUSE IT PROPITIATES. (20) THE LIMBS OF A BURNT-OFFERING PRECEDE THE EMURIM OF A SIN-OFFERING, (21) BECAUSE IT [THE FORMER] IS ENTIRELY FOR [ALTAR] FIRES. A SIN-OFFERING PRECEDES A GUILT-OFFERING, BECAUSE ITS BLOOD IS SPRINKLED ON THE FOUR HORNS AND ON THE BASE. (22) A GUILT-OFFERING PRECEDES A THANKSOFFERING AND A NAZIRITE'S RAM, BECAUSE IT IS A SACRIFICE OF HIGHER SANCTITY. A THANKSOFFERING AND A NAZIRITE'S RAM PRECEDE A PEACE- OFFERING, BECAUSE THEY ARE EATEN ONE DAY [ONLY] AND REQUIRE [THE ACCOMPANIMENT OF] LOAVES. A PEACEOFFERING PRECEDES A FIRSTLING, BECAUSE IT REQUIRES FOUR [BLOOD] APPLICATIONS, LAYING [OF HANDS]. DRINK-OFFERINGS, AND THE WAVING OF THE BREAST AND THE THIGH. A FIRSTLING PRECEDES TITHE, BECAUSE ITS SANCTITY IS FROM THE WOMB, (23) AND IT IS EATEN BY PRIESTS. TITHE PRECEDES BIRD[-OFFERINGS]. BECAUSE IT IS A SLAUGHTERED SACRIFICE, (24) AND PART OF IT IS MOST SACRED, [VIZ.,] ITS BLOOD AND EMURIM. (25) BIRDS PRECEDE MEALOFFERINGS, BECAUSE THEY ARE BLOOD SACRIFICES. A SINNER'S MEAL-OFFERING PRECEDES A VOTIVE MEAL-OFFERING, BECAUSE IT COMES ON ACCOUNT OF SIN. A SIN-OFFERING OF A BIRD PRECEDES A BURNT-OFFERING OF A BIRD; AND IT IS LIKEWISE WHEN HE DEDICATES THEM. (26)

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(1). ↑ Lit., ‘continual’ offerings — the daily burntofferings.
(2). ↑ Which were sacrificed on Sabbaths, Festivals, and New Moons.
(3). ↑ When the Sabbath and New Moon concurred, similarly the other cases.
(4). ↑ Num. XXVIII, 23. ‘These’ are the additional festival offerings, whilst ‘beside the burnt-offering of the morning’ implies that that had already been offered, having preceded the additional offerings.
(5). ↑ Since even the more frequent additional offerings are not really constant, perhaps we disregard their greater frequency.
(6). ↑ Ibid. 24.
(7). ↑ He interprets: like those which are mentioned in the preceding verse: as in those the more frequent take precedence, so in these (the festival additional-offerings) the more frequent take precedence.
(8). ↑ To teach that an additional offering must be brought every day of the festival.
(9). ↑ If that is its only purpose.
(10). ↑ Not ‘like these.’
(11). ↑ I.e., the seven he-lambs specified in Num. XXVIII, (19) are not offered each day but spread over the seven days.
(12). ↑ Which precludes that interpretation.
(13). ↑ Sc. the first day.
(14). ↑ If Scripture did not write, like these.
(15). ↑ The offerings on each day (including the first) must be the same. Hence ‘like’ is unnecessary for that purpose, and so intimates precedence.
(16). ↑ Cited in the Mishnah.
(17). ↑ If its teaching applies only to the daily offerings.
(18). ↑ In all cases. For that reason ‘continual’ is emphasized.
(19). ↑ If both are ready for sprinkling at the same time.
(20). ↑ It makes atonement where kareth is involved.
(21). ↑ For burning.
(22). ↑ Whereas of the guilt-offering only two applications are made, and not on the horns; nor is the blood poured out on the base (Rashi).
(23). ↑ It is born sacred.
(24). ↑ Whereas a bird requires melikah; slaughtering is considered higher.
(25). ↑ Even in lesser sacrifices these possess the same sanctity as the most sacred sacrifices, since they belong to the altar. In the case of a bird only the blood possesses that sanctity, but there are no emurim.
(26). ↑ When a man dedicates the two birds (v Lev. V, 7) he first dedicates the one for sin-offering and then the one for burnt-offering.