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The Gemara looks back to our last Mishna and examines on of its points: what was the status of the sacrifices brought to the Temple when the Israelites first entered the land?
We learned that people were not liable if they brought sacrifices at the wrong time - turtledoves that were too young; pigeons that were already too grown. But Rabbi Shimon argues that a sacrifice brought at the wrong time should receive malkot, lashes.
Rabbi Shimon boosts his argument by explaining that the Torah forbids bringing sacrifices in the same way that they were brought in the desert once the people reach Israel. The people could only bring voluntary and not communal offerings once entering the land. Voluntary sacrifices could be brought in the Tabernacle erected in Gilgal. Once the people arrived at Shiloh and Jerusalem, the obligatory sacrifices could be brought again as they were in the desert.
The Mishna discusses various cases of premature sacrifices and cites a dispute between the Sages and Rabbi Shimon whether there is a violation of slaughtering outside the Temple when at the moment it is unfit to be brought as a sacrifice inside. The implication is that if one were to consecrate an animal that is premature (either before the eighth day or the day that the mother was slaughtered) or a bird that is premature (turtledoves before they mature), the hekdesh status would be binding.
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