There are [laws pertaining] to items consecrated to the Altar that are not [applicable] to items consecrated for the upkeep of the Temple, and there are [laws pertaining] to items consecrated for the upkeep of the Temple that are not [applicable] to items consecrated to the Altar. Items consecrated to the Altar can produce a temurah, and we are liable on their account for piggul, nossar, and tamei. Their offspring and milk are prohibited after their redemption, one who slaughters them outside [the Temple] is liable, and we do not give of them to craftsmen for their fee. This is not the case with things consecrated for the upkeep of the Temple.

There are [laws pertaining] to items consecrated for Temple upkeep that are not [applicable] to items consecrated to the Altar [as follows]: Unspecified consecrations are [assumed to be] for Temple upkeep, Temple-upkeep sanctity takes effect upon all things, we transgress me’ilah [by benefit- ing] from that which grows from them, and there is in them no benefit for the Kohanim.

[Concerning] both Altar consecrations and Temple-upkeep consecrations, we cannot change them from one sanctity to another sanctity. [However,] we may consecrate them with a consecration of appraisal, and we may make them [the object of] a cherem vow. And if they died, they must be buried. R’ Shimon says: [With regard to animals] consecrated for the upkeep of the Temple, if they died, they may be redeemed.

And these are the [things] that are buried: If a consecrated [animal] aborted [a fetus], [the aborted fetus] is buried. If it discharged an afterbirth, [the afterbirth] is buried. [And so is] the ox that is stoned, and the decapi- tated calf, and the birds of a metzora, and the hair of a nazir, and a firstborn donkey, and meat with milk, and chullin [animals] that were slaughtered in the [Temple] Courtyard. R’ Shimon says: Chullin [animals] that were slaughtered in the [Temple] Courtyard must be burned, and so too a chayah that was slaughtered in the [Temple] Courtyard.