st it through its mouth to its tail. And they put its legs and
intestines inside it." The words of R. Jose, the Galilean. Rabbi Akiba
said, "that is a kind of boiling, therefore they hang them outside of it."

2. Men must not roast the passover on a spit or a gridiron. Said R. Zaduk,
"it happened to Rabban Gamaliel that he said to Zabi, his servant, 'go and
roast for us the passover on the gridiron.' " "If it touch the side of the
oven?" "That part must be peeled off." "If its gravy drop on the side of
the oven, and again return on it?" "That part must be taken out." "If the
gravy drop on the fine flour?" "That part must be pulled out" (and
burned).

3. "If men anointed (basted) it with oil of the heave-offering?" "If it be
a company of priests, they may eat it." "If it be a company of
Israelites?" "If it be raw they can wash it away." "But if roast?" "They
must peel off the surface." "If it was anointed with oil of the second
tithe?" "Its value in money must not be charged to the members of the
company, because they cannot redeem(164) the second tithes in Jerusalem."

4. Five things may be brought during legal uncleanness, but they must not
be eaten in legal uncleanness: the sheaf,(165) the two wave loaves,(166)
and the shewbread,(167) sacrifices of peace-offerings of the
congregation,(168) and the kids(169) on the feast of the New Moon. The
passover which was brought during legal uncleanness, may be eaten in
uncleanness, because in the beginning the command came only for eating.

5. "If the flesh be legally unclean and the fat unpolluted?" "The priest
must not sprinkle its blood on the altar." "If the fat be unclean and the
flesh unpolluted?" "The priest may sprinkle its blood." But with other
holy offerings it is not so, for though their flesh be unclean, and their
fat remains unpolluted, the priest may sprinkle their blood on the altar.

6. "If the congregation be legally unclean, or its majority, or the
priests be legally unclean, and the congregation legally clean?" "The
passover may be kept in legal uncleanness." "If the minority of the
congregation be legally unclean?" "The clean majority can keep the first,
and the unclean minority the second passover" (on the fourteenth day of
the following month).

7. When the blood of the passover-offering was poured on the altar, and it
was afterward known that it was unclean, the (golden)(170) plate of the
High Priest makes it accepted. When the body of the paschal sac