Whether One Is Flogged for Leaving Over the Passover Offering

"And you shall let none of it remain until morning, and that which remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire" (Exodus 12:10). Scripture comes to place a positive command after a negative command, to say that one is not flogged for it; these are the words of Rabbi Judah. Rabbi Jacob says: That is not the reason. Rather, it is because this is a negative command that involves no action, and for any negative command that involves no action one is not flogged. By implication, Rabbi Judah holds that one is flogged for it. From where does he derive this? Ulla said: He learns it from the conspiring witnesses [Deuteronomy 19:19]. Just as conspiring witnesses commit a negative command that involves no action and are flogged, so too for any negative command involving no action one is flogged. What is unique about conspiring witnesses, that they require no warning? Let the one who slanders a bride prove otherwise. What is unique about the slanderer, that he is both flogged and pays? Let conspiring witnesses prove otherwise. So the argument comes full circle: this case is not like that case, and that case is not like this case. Their common feature is that each is a negative command involving no action for which one is flogged; so too for any negative command involving no action one is flogged. And as for Rabbi Jacob, what does he do with the words "and that which remains of it"? He needs them for what we learned: the bones, the sinews, and the remnant are burned on the sixteenth; and if the sixteenth falls on a Sabbath, they are burned on the seventeenth, since it overrides neither the Sabbath nor the festival.