The Festival Offering and How Long It May Be Eaten

"And it shall not remain overnight" (Exodus 34:25). The festival offering [chagigah] would come from the herd or from the flock, from the males or from the females, and it was eaten for two days. Our Mishnah does not follow Ben Teima, for we have learned: Ben Teima says, the festival offering that comes together with the Passover is like the Passover, and it is eaten only for one day and one night. What is his reasoning? As it is written, "and there shall not remain overnight until the morning the sacrifice of the festival" — this is the festival offering; "the Passover," according to its plain meaning; and Scripture compared it [the festival offering] to the Passover. And [according to Ben Teima] it is eaten only roasted, and does not come from the herd, and does not come from females, and does not come when it is two years old, and is eaten only by those registered for it. "The first of the firstfruits of your land" (Exodus 34:26) is written at remez 358. "You shall not cook a kid."