The Passover Offering May Not Meet Leaven or Wait for Morning

Mekhilta DeRabbi Shimon Ben Yochai 34:14

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"You shall not slaughter the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread" (Exodus 34:25). The one who slaughters, the one who receives the blood, the one who dashes it, and the one who burns the portions - and likewise any one member of the eating-group - if there was in the possession of one of them an olive's-bulk of leaven at the time of the slaughtering of the Passover offering, they transgress a negative commandment. "And the sacrifice of the festival of Passover shall not remain overnight until morning" (Exodus 34:25). From here we learn that anyone who lets the sacrificial portions remain overnight transgresses a negative commandment.

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