Why Scripture Sets Daybreak as the Limit for the Leftover Passover Offering

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 198:4

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(Exodus 12:10) "And you shall let none of it remain until morning." This teaches that if one did leave any of it over, he has transgressed a commandment. But I might still understand that what is left over is fit to use; therefore the verse states, "And you shall let none of it remain until morning" [it is forbidden]. I might read only the verse, "And that which remains of it you shall burn with fire" (Exodus 12:10). Why then do I need the words "until morning"? Rather, Scripture comes to set a boundary for the morning of the morning [to fix the precise time after daybreak when the prohibition takes effect].

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