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Ramban on Leviticus 7:17/רמב"ן על ויקרא ז׳:י״ז
אוְהַנּוֹתָר מִבְּשַׂר הַזָּבַח בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁי אֵין עִנְיַן הַכָּתוּב שֶׁיִּהְיֶה הַנּוֹתָר לַיּוֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁי נִשְׂרָף, וְיֵאָכֵל בַּלַּיְלָה, שֶׁכְּבָר לָמְדוּ רַבּוֹתֵינוּ (זבחים נו) מִן הַכָּתוּב בְּפָרָשַׁת קְדוֹשִׁים תִּהְיוּ (ויקרא י"ט:ו') "וְהַנּוֹתָר עַד יוֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁי בָּאֵשׁ יִשָּׂרֵף", שֶׁכָּל מַה שֶׁיִּשָּׁאֵר מִשְּׁנֵי יָמִים כְּלָל טָעוּן שְׂרֵפָה, אֲבָל "בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁי" אֵינוֹ דָּבֵק עִם "וְהַנּוֹתָר", אֲבָל הוּא דָּבוּק עִם "בָּאֵשׁ תִּשָּׂרֵף", יֹאמַר כִּי הַנּוֹתָר מִבְּשַׂר הַזֶּבַח שֶׁלֹּא נֶאֱכַל בְּיוֹם הַקְרִיבוֹ וּמִמָּחֳרָת יִשָּׂרֵף בָּאֵשׁ בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁלִישִׁי בַּבֹּקֶר. זֶהוּ שֶׁאָמְרוּ (זבחים נה), נֶאֱכָלִים לִשְׁנֵי יָמִים וְלַיְלָה אֶחָד, כִּי בַּלַּיְלָה הַשֵּׁנִי אֵינוֹ נֶאֱכָל וְלֹא נִשְׂרָף, כִּי הִצְרִיךְ הַכָּתוּב לִשְׂרֵפַת פְּסוּלֵי הַמֻּקְדָּשִׁים הַלָּלוּ שֶׁתִּהְיֶה בַּיּוֹם כְּמוֹ שֶׁהַקְרָבַת הַכְּשֵׁרִים בַּיּוֹם:
1AND THAT WHICH REMAINETH OF THE FLESH OF THE OFFERING ON THE THIRD DAY SHALL BE BURNT WITH FIRE. The verse does not mean to say that that which is left over on the third day must be burnt, but it may be eaten during the preceding night, for our Rabbis have already derived from the verse in the section of Kedoshim Tih’yu — and if aught remain until the third day, it shall be burnt with fire,129 that whatever remains after any part of the two days, must be burnt [and thus may not be eaten on the night preceding the third day]. But the expression, on the third day, is not connected with that which remaineth, but with shall be burnt with fire [the sense of the verse thus being as follows: “and that which remaineth of the flesh of the offering, shall be burnt with fire on the third day”]. The verse thus states that that which was left over of the flesh of the offering which was not eaten on the day when it was offered nor on the morrow, shall be burnt with fire on the third day in the morning. It is this which the Rabbis intended when saying [of the peace-offerings]130 that “they are eaten for two days and the one intervening night,” for on the second night [preceding the third day] they are neither eaten nor burnt, for Scripture required that the burning of invalidated hallowed offerings should be at daytime, just as the offering of the valid ones can only be at daytime.