The Eight Things Permitted to Gideon on That Night

"And it was on that night that the LORD said to him, Take the bullock, the ox that is your father's, and the second bullock of seven years" (Judges 6:25). Rabbi Abba bar Kahana said: Eight things were permitted on that night [which are ordinarily forbidden in sacrifice]: an offering outside [the Temple court], at night, by a non-priest, using a vessel of an asherah, the stones of [a foreign] altar, the wood of an asherah, a set-aside [muktzeh] animal, and a worshiped animal. And Resh Lakish said: A set-aside animal is forbidden only when it has been set aside for seven years.