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Negative commandment · Lo Ta’aseh #106 of 613

Not to substitute [another animal] for [one selected as] a sacred offering

שלא להמיר את הקודשים

Parashat Bechukotai בחקתי · Sefer HaChinuch #351

The verse · Vayikra 27:10

לֹא יַחֲלִיפֶנּוּ וְלֹא־יָמִיר אֹתוֹ טוֹב בְּרָע אוֹ־רַע בְּטוֹב וְאִם־הָמֵר יָמִיר בְּהֵמָה בִּבְהֵמָה וְהָיָה־הוּא וּתְמוּרָתוֹ יִהְיֶה־קֹּדֶשׁ

“He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and its substitute shall be holy.”

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The Rambam’s words

Not to substitute [another animal] for [one selected as] a sacred offering, as [Leviticus 27:10] states: "Do not exchange it or substitute another for it."

שלא להמיר את הקודשים, שנאמר "לא יחליפנו, ולא ימיר אותו" (ויקרא כז,י).

Why · Sefer HaChinuch #351

To not exchange consecrated things

“The root of this commandment and some of its laws are all written in this Order in the next commandment.”

Who & when

“And this prohibition is practiced in every place and at all times by males and females.”

Where in the Mishneh Torah

Hilchot Substitution הלכות תמורה

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