Laying Hands on the Goat and the Five Sin-Offerings Left to Die

(Leviticus 4:24) "And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat" comes to include the goat of Nachshon for the laying on of hands, the words of Rabbi Yehuda. Rabbi Shimon says: it comes to include the goats brought for idolatry for the laying on of hands, for Rabbi Shimon would say: every communal sin-offering whose blood enters within the Sanctuary requires the laying on of hands. "And he shall slaughter it," and not its substitute. When it says below "and he shall slaughter it" (in the feminine), this excludes its substitute, and its offspring, and its exchange. From here Rabbi Yishmael would say: five sin-offerings are left to die. The offspring of a sin-offering, the substitute of a sin-offering, a sin-offering whose owner has died, one whose owner has gained atonement through another, and one that has passed its first year. And you cannot speak of the offspring of a sin-offering in the case of the congregation, for the congregation does not bring a female. Nor is there a substitute of a sin-offering in the congregation, for the congregation does not make substitutions. Nor a sin-offering whose owner has died, for the congregation does not die. As for one whose owner has gained atonement through another and one that has passed its year, one might think these would be left to die in the case of the congregation; you say no. Let the unspecified cases be learned from the specified ones: just as the specified cases, the offspring of a sin-offering, the substitute of a sin-offering, and a sin-offering whose owner has died, are spoken of regarding the individual and not the congregation, so too one whose owner has gained atonement and one that has passed its year are spoken of regarding the individual and not the congregation.