The [mitzvah of giving the] first of the fleece applies [both] in the Land and outside the Land, when the Temple exists and when the Temple does not exist, to unconsecrated animals but not to consecrated ones. The stringency of the [law of the] foreleg, the jaws, and the maw over the [law of the] first of the fleece is that the [law of the] foreleg, the jaws, and maw applies to cattle and to flocks, to many and to few, whereas the [law of the] first of the fleece applies only to sheep, and it applies only to many.

How many are [considered] many? Beis Shammai say: Two sheep, as it is stated (Isaiah 7:21): A man will sustain a calf and two sheep. Beis Hillel say: Five, as it is stated (I Sam. 25:18): Five prepared sheep. R’ Dosa ben Horkinas says: Five sheep, each of which is shorn of a maneh and a half, are subject to the [law of the] first of the fleece, but the Sages say: Five sheep that are shorn of any amount. How much must we give him? The weight of five selaim in Judea, which are the equivalent of ten selaim in Galilee, bleached but not dirty — enough to make a small garment out of it — as it is stated (Deuteronomy 18:4): You shall give to him — that there should be enough in it for a gift. [If] he did not manage to give it to him until he dyed it, he is exempt; [if] he bleached it but did not dye it, he is obligated. [If] one buys the fleece of a gentile’s sheep, he is exempt from the first of the fleece. [If] one buys the fleece of another’s sheep — if the seller left some over, the seller is obligated; [if] he did not leave [anything] over, the buyer is obligated. [If] he had two kinds, dark ones and white ones, and he sold him the dark ones but not the white ones, the males but not the females, this one must give for himself and that one must give for himself.