(5) What is the difference between Pesach [celebrated] in Egypt, and Pesach [observed] by [later] generations? The Pesach [sacrifice] in Egypt [required that] its purchase be on the tenth [of Nissan]; and required the sprinkling of its blood with a bunch of hyssop on the lintel, and on the two side-posts [of entrances]; and that it be eaten in one night in haste; whilst Pesach of [later] generations, was observed for all seven [days].

(6) Rabbi Yehoshua says, "I heard [from one of my teachers] that a temurah [an animal which has been substituted, wrongfully, for a sacrificial animal, and which thereby becomes sanctified for certain purposes] for [another, intended as] a Pesach sacrifice, may be offered; and [also] that a temurah for [another, intended as] a Pesach sacrifice, may not be offered; and I do not have with what to explain [this]." Rabbi Akiva said, "I will explain [it]: if the Pesach sacrifice [which had been lost] is found, before the [second] Pesach sacrifice [intended to replace the lost one] is slaughtered, it must be left to pasture until it [contracts a blemish], and shelamim [offerings whose various parts are consumed by its owners, the Kohanim and the fire on the altar] may be purchased from [the proceeds of its sale]; and so [too with] its temurah, and if it was found after the [second] Pesach sacrifice [intended to replace the lost one] is slaughtered, it may be sacrificed as shelamim, and so [too with] its temurah."

(7) If one has set apart [and designated] for his Pesach sacrifice a female [animal], or a male that is two years old, he must leave it to pasture until it [contracts a blemish]; and [then] sell it, and its money goes to [the fund of] voluntary burnt-offerings. If one has set apart [and designated] his Pesach sacrifice and dies [in the interim, before it is sacrificed], his son cannot bring it afterwards as a Pesach sacrifice, but [rather] as shelamim.

(8) If a Pesach sacrifice got mixed up with other [animals intended as] sacrifices, they must all be left to pasture until [they contract a blemish], and [then] be sold; and [the owner] must bring for the price [obtained] for the finest [animal] among them, another sacrifice of each kind of offering [with which it was mixed], and incurs the loss of the difference [between the cost incurred and the proceeds of the animals that he sold] from [his private means]. If a Pesach sacrifice got mixed up with first-born [animals that may only be eaten by Kohanim]; Rabbi Shimon says, "If it is [designated to be eaten by] a company of Kohanim [members of the priestly caste, a subgroup of tribe of Levi, which is uniquely responsible for maintaining and carrying out the sacrificial services in the Temple], they may eat [all of them]."