Eaten in One Company With No Bone of It Broken

Mekhilta DeRabbi Shimon Ben Yochai 12:46

"In one house it shall be eaten" (Exodus 12:46). The attendant who has eaten an olive's bulk beside the oven, if he is shrewd, fills his belly there; and if the members of the company wish to do him a kindness, they come and eat together with him. "In one house." I have only a house. From where do I include a courtyard, a garden, and a booth? Scripture teaches "in one it shall be eaten." If so, why is it said "in one house it shall be eaten"? It means in one company. "You shall not carry forth from the house" any of the flesh. I have only from house to house; from company to company, from where? Scripture teaches "outside" [chutzah], meaning outside the place of its eating. "It shall be eaten; you shall not carry forth from the house any of the flesh." At the time of eating one is liable, but one is not liable when it is not the time of eating. "It shall be eaten; you shall not carry forth from the house." One is liable for the quantity fit for eating, and one is not liable for less than an olive's bulk. "It shall be eaten; you shall not carry forth from the house." One is liable for the fit offering, and one is not liable for the unfit. I have only the Passover of Egypt; from where the Passover of the generations? Scripture teaches "it is a statute." "It shall be eaten, and a bone of it you shall not break." One is liable for the quantity fit for eating, and one is not liable for less than an olive's bulk. "And a bone of it you shall not break" — of a fit one, not of an unfit one. "And a bone of it you shall not break" — of it you do not break, but you do break a bone of the festival offering (chagigah) that comes with it. Thus, because there is in it what is not in other consecrated offerings, and in other consecrated offerings what is not in it, you cannot derive the one from the other.

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