Wenn man einen ungeborenen Kuhfötus von einem Nichtjuden kauft, [einen ungeborenen Kuhfötus] an [einen Nichtjuden] verkauft, obwohl man keine Erlaubnis dazu hat, eine Partnerschaft mit [einem Nichtjuden] hat, erhält [ein ungeborener Kuhfötus] von [einem Nichtjuden] oder [einem ungeborenen Kuhfötus] an [einen Nichtjuden], [der ungeborene Kuhfötus] ist von [den Verpflichtungen] des Erstgeborenen befreit. Wie geschrieben steht (Numeri 3:13): "in Israel", aber nicht von anderen. Priester und Leviten sind verpflichtet, denn sie waren nicht von den Pflichten des Erstgeborenen eines reinen koscheren Tieres befreit (sie waren nur befreit) von der Erlösung des erstgeborenen Sohnes und der Pflichten des Erstgeborenen eines Esels.
Bartenura on Mishnah Bekhorot
הלוקח עובר פרתו. אע"פ שאינו רשאין – to sell him a large animal (see Tractate Bekhorot, Chapter 1, Mishnah 1 and Tractate Avodah Zarah, Chapter 1, Mishnah 6).
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English Explanation of Mishnah Bekhorot
Introduction
Chapter two begins to discuss the first-born of a pure animal, such as a cow. This first-born is holy and must be sacrificed and the meat is eaten by the priests. If it is blemished, it must still be given to the priest, but it need not be sacrificed.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Bekhorot
[An Israelite] who buys a fetus of a cow belonging to a non-Jew or who sells one to him, although this is not permitted, or who forms a partnership with him, or who receives [an animal] from him to look after or who gives [his cow] to him to look after, is exempt from the [law of the] bekhor, for it says: [“I sanctified to Me all the firstborn] in Israel,” (Numbers 3:13) but not in non-Jews. This is the same exact halakhah as was taught in the 1:1. See there for commentary.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Bekhorot
Priests and Levites are subject [to the law of the first-born pure animal]. They are not exempt from [the law of] the first-born of a clean animal, but only of a first-born son and the first-born of a donkey. Priests and Levites are exempt from two of the three types of bekhorot the first born of a donkey and their own first-born son. They are, however, liable for the first-born of a pure animal. If a priest or Levite owns a pure animal and it gives birth for the first time and the offspring is male, it must be sacrificed. Then the priest eats the meat, as is always the case.
