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.

And these are the [things] that are burned: Cha-metz on Pesach is burned, and [so is] terumah that is tamei, and [fruits of] orlah, and kilayim of the vineyard. That which it is usual to burn is burned, and that which it is usual to bury is buried. And [the Kohanim] may kindle [a fire] with bread or oil of terumah.

[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.