Can Partners and the Community Pledge a Burnt Offering

"You shall offer" — this teaches that the burnt offering may come as the freewill gift of two partners. But could this not be reasoned out? The bird burnt offering comes as a vow and a freewill gift, and the animal burnt offering comes as a vow and a freewill gift; just as the bird offering, coming by vow and gift, may come from the freewill gift of two, so the animal burnt offering may come from the gift of two. Or go this other way: the meal offering comes by vow and gift, and the animal burnt offering by vow and gift; just as the meal offering does not come from the gift of two, so the animal burnt offering should not come from the gift of two. Let us see which it resembles: we derive a thing entirely consumed by the altar fire from a thing entirely consumed by the fire, and let the meal offering, not wholly consumed, offer no proof. Or go this way: derive a thing brought as a public obligation from a thing brought as a public obligation, and let the bird offering, not brought as a public obligation, offer no proof. Scripture says "you shall offer" — teaching that it comes from the freewill gift of two. "Your offering" — this teaches that it may come as a freewill gift of the community. But could this not be reasoned? The meal offering comes by vow and gift, and the animal burnt offering by vow and gift; just as the meal offering does not come as a community freewill gift, so the animal burnt offering should not. No: if you said this of the meal offering, which does not come from the gift of two, will you say it of the animal burnt offering, which does come from the gift of two? Let the bird offering prove it — it comes from the gift of two yet not as a community gift. No: if you said this of the bird offering, which does not come as a public obligation, will you say it of the animal burnt offering, which does? Let the peace offerings prove it — they come as a public obligation yet not as a community freewill gift. So you too should not be astonished if the animal burnt offering, though it comes as a public obligation, does not come as a community freewill gift. Scripture says "your offering" — teaching that it does come as a community freewill gift. Another argument: if the individual, who does not bring an obligatory burnt offering each day, brings a freewill animal burnt offering, then the community, which does bring an obligatory burnt offering each day, surely should bring a freewill animal burnt offering. No: if you said this of the individual, who brings a freewill meal offering, will you say it of the community, which does not bring a freewill meal offering? Let the partners prove it — they bring no freewill meal offering yet bring a freewill animal burnt offering. What is distinctive of partners is that they also bring a freewill bird offering; will you say the community brings a freewill animal burnt offering, when it brings no freewill bird offering? And the back-and-forth continues — the meal offering proves that the community brings a thing as obligation yet not as freewill gift. So you should not be astonished if, though the community brings the burnt offering as obligation, it does not bring it as a freewill gift. Scripture says "your offering" — teaching that it comes as a community freewill gift.