We may not be counted initially for [the meat of] an animal on Yom Tov, but we may be counted for it[s meat] prior to Yom Tov, and slaughter and apportion [it] among ourselves. R’ Yehudah says: A person may weigh meat against a utensil or against a chopper. But the Sages say: We may not use a scale at all.

We may not sharpen the knife on Yom Tov, but we may sharpen one against the other. A person may not say to a butcher, ‘‘Weigh me out a dinar’s worth of meat,’’ but he may slaughter [an animal] and they may apportion [the meat] among themselves.