Thirty-six kereisos [are mentioned] in the Torah: [1] he who cohabits with his mother, [2] or with his father’s wife, [3] or with his daughter-in-law; [4] he who cohabits with a male, [5] or with an animal, [6] or a woman who allows herself to be mounted by an animal; [7] he who cohabits with a woman and her daughter, [8] or with a married woman; [9] he who cohabits with his sister, [10] or with his father’s sister, [11] or with his mother’s sister, [12] or with his wife’s sister, [13] or with his brother’s wife, [14] or with his father’s brother’s wife, [15] or with a menstruant; [16] the blasphemer, [17] the idol worshiper; [18] the one who gives of his offspring to the Molech, [19] the practitioner of ov; [20] one who desecrates the Sabbath; [21] a tamei [person] who eats consecrated foods, [22] or one who enters the Temple grounds while tamei; [23] one who eats cheilev fat, [24] or blood, [25] leftover [sacrificial meat], [26] or piggul; [27] one who slaughters [a sacrificial animal], [28] or offers [it] up, outside [the Temple grounds]; [29] one who eats chametz on Pesach; [30] one who eats [31] or performs work on Yom Kippur; [32] one who compounds the [anointing] oil, [33] or one who compounds the incense, [34] or anoints himself with the anointing oil; [35] [one who neglects the mitzvos of] the pesach offering [36] or circumcision, which are positive commandments.

For these, one is liable to kares for a willful transgression, and for their inadvertent transgression, a chatas, and for their doubtful transgression, an asham talui, with the exception of one who contaminated the Temple or its consecrated foods, because he requires a variable-offering; [these are] the words of R’ Meir. The Sages say: Neither does the one who blasphemes, as it is said (Num. 15:29): One law shall be for you, for the one who acts in error. This excludes the blasphemer, who does not perform any action.

Some [women] bring an offering and it is eaten, and some bring an offering and it is not eaten, and some do not bring [any offering]. The following bring an offering and it is eaten: She who aborts something resembling an animal, beast, or bird; [these are] the words of R’ Meir. The Sages, however, say: Unless it has something of human form. She who aborts a sandal, or an amniotic sac, or a fashioned shell, or a fetus that came out in segments. Likewise, a slavewoman who aborted must bring an offering and it is eaten.

The following [women] bring [an offering] but it is not eaten: She who aborts, but it is not known what she aborted, and likewise, two women who aborted, one of a category that is exempt and one of a category that is liable. Said R’ Yose: When? When this one went east and this one went west, but if both were present together, they bring an offering and it is eaten.

The following do not bring [an offering]: [She who aborts a shell filled with water, or filled with blood, or filled with a varicolored substance; she who aborts something resembling fish, locusts, abominated creatures, or crawling things; she who aborts on the fortieth day, or one who delivers by Caesarean section. R’ Shimon declares liable one who delivers by Caesarean section.

She who aborts on the eve of the eighty-first [day] — Beis Shammai exempt [her] from an offering, but Beis Hillel declare [her] liable. Said Beis Hillel to Beis Shammai: In what way does the evening preceding the eighty-first day differ from the eighty-first day [itself]? [Furthermore,] if it is the same regarding tumah, should it not be the same regarding an offering? Beis Shammai replied to them: No, if you said regarding [a woman] who aborted on the eighty-first day, it is because it came out at a time when she is fit to bring an offering; will you say [it] of one who aborts on the evening preceding the eighty-first day, for it did not come out at a time when she is fit to bring an offering? Replied Beis Hillel: But she who aborts on the eighty-first day that fell on the Sabbath will prove [our point], for it did not come out at a time when she is fit to bring an offering, yet she is liable to an offering. Replied Beis Shammai: No, if you said of one who aborted on the eighty-first day that fell on the Sabbath, for even though it is unfit for a personal offering, it is fit for a communal offering; will you say of one who aborted on the evening of the eighty-first day, since the night is fit neither for a personal offering nor for a communal offering? [Moreover,] the [law of] the blood is not conclusive since [if a woman] aborts within the melos period, her blood is ritually contaminated, yet she is exempt from an offering.

A woman, who is liable for five doubtful cases of zivah, or for five doubtful cases of childbirth, must bring one offering, and [then] she may partake of offerings, and she is not bound to bring the rest. For five definite cases of childbirth, or for five definite cases of zivah, she must bring one offering, and [then] she may partake of offerings, but she is bound to bring the rest. It happened that in Jerusalem the price of pairs [of doves rose until it] settled at golden dinars. Said Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel: ‘‘[By] this Temple! I will not pass the night until they are sold for [silver] dinars.’’ He entered the beis din and taught: If a woman must bring offerings for five definite cases of childbirth or for five definite cases of zivah — she must bring one offering, and [then] she may partake of the offerings, and she is not bound to bring the rest. And on that day the price of pairs [of doves dropped until it] settled at two quarters of a dinar.

Four lack atonement [offerings], and four bring [offerings] for intentional as well as inadvertent transgression. These are the ones who lack atonement [offerings]: the zav, the zavah, the woman who has given birth, and the metzora. R’ Eliezer ben Yaakov says: A proselyte [too] lacks atonement until the blood is sprinkled for him, and [so does] a nazir for his wine, his haircutting, and his tumah.

These bring [an offering] for intentional as well as inadvertent transgression: he who cohabits with a [betrothed] maidservant, a nazir who became tamei, for the oath of the testimony, and for the oath of the deposit.

[Concerning] all consecrated [animals] that are slaughtered [with intent for] beyond their time and outside their place —- these must be burned. An [unnecessary] asham talui must be burned. R’ Yehudah says: It must be buried. A bird chatas that is brought out of doubt must be burned. R’ Yehudah says: One must throw it into the stream. All items that must be burned may not be buried, and all items that must be buried may not be burned. R’ Yehudah says: If one wishes to be stringent with himself to burn [items] that must be buried, he is permitted. They said to him: It is not permitted to deviate.