Someone who vowed to be a nazir, and petitioned a sage who declared it binding —- he counts from the time the vow was made. [If] he inquired of a sage who permitted it, [and] he had an animal set aside —- it may go out and pasture with the flock. Beis Hillel said to Beis Shammai: Do you not admit that here where the consecration is in error that it goes out and pastures with the flock? Beis Shammai said to them: Do you not admit that if someone erred and called the ninth the tenth, and the tenth the ninth, and the eleventh the tenth —- that each is sanctified? Beis Hillel said to them: No! Is it the rod that makes it sacred? What if he erred and placed the rod upon the eighth or the twelfth —- has he perhaps effected anything? Rather Scripture, which sanctified the tenth, has also sanctified the ninth and the eleventh.