The dangling limb and flesh of a man are tahor. [If] the man dies: the flesh is tahor, the limb conveys tumah as a limb severed from a living person, but it does not convey tumah as a limb of a corpse; [these are] the words of R’ Meir, but R’ Shimon declares it tahor.

[The mitzvah of giving] the foreleg, the jaws, and the maw applies [both] in the Land and outside the Land, when the Temple exists and when the Temple does not exist, [and] to unconsecrated animals but not to consecrated animals. For it might have been argued: If unconsecrated animals, which are not subject to the [requirement to give the] breast and the thigh, are subject to the [requirement to give the] gifts — [then] consecrated animals, which are subject to the [requirement to give the] breast and the thigh, is it not logical that they be subject to the [requirement to give the] gifts? Therefore, Scripture states (Lev. 7:34): And I have given them to Aaron the Kohen and to his sons for an everlasting right — he has only what is mentioned in the section.

All consecrated animals that had a permanent blemish prior to their consecration, and they were redeemed — they are subject to [the law of] bechor and the gifts [due the Kohen], and they revert to mundane status [even] to [the extent that they may] be shorn and put to work, and their offspring and their milk are permissible after their redemption, and one who slaughters them outside [the Temple Courtyard] is not liable, and they do not effect temurah, and if they died [prior to their redemption] they may be redeemed, except for the bechoroffering and the maaser-offering. All [animals] whose consecration preceded their blemish, or whose temporary blemish [preceded] their consecration, and only after [their consecration] did they develop a permanent blemish, and they were redeemed — they are exempt from [the law of] bechor and from the gifts [due the Kohen], and they do not revert to mundane status to [the extent of being permitted to] be shorn and put to work, and their offspring and their milk are prohibited after their redemption, and one who slaughters them outside [the Temple Courtyard] is liable and they effect temurah, and if they died they must be buried.

[If] a firstborn [animal] became mingled with a hundred: In the case that a hundred people slaughter them all, we exempt them all; [if] one person slaughters them all, we exempt one for him. [If] one slaughters for a Kohen or for a gentile, he is exempt from the gifts, and [if] one makes a partnership with them, he must mark [the meat]. But if he says, ‘‘Except for the gifts,’’ he is exempt from the gifts. [If] he said, ‘‘Sell me the entrails of a cow,’’ and they contained the gifts, he must give them to the Kohen, but he does not deduct [them] from the price. [If] he bought [them] from him by weight, he must give them to the Kohen, and he deducts [them] from the price.