Liturgy for Pesachim 10:9

הַפֶּסַח אַחַר חֲצוֹת, מְטַמֵּא אֶת הַיָּדָיִם. הַפִּגּוּל וְהַנּוֹתָר, מְטַמְּאִין אֶת הַיָּדָיִם. בֵּרַךְ בִּרְכַּת הַפֶּסַח פָּטַר אֶת שֶׁל זֶבַח. בֵּרַךְ אֶת שֶׁל זֶבַח, לֹא פָטַר אֶת שֶׁל פֶּסַח, דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל. רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא אוֹמֵר, לֹא זוֹ פוֹטֶרֶת זוֹ, וְלֹא זוֹ פוֹטֶרֶת זוֹ:

The Pesach, after midnight, renders one's hands unclean. [For it is nothar from midnight on. And the rabbis decreed that nothar render one's hands unclean so that they not be lax in eating it. And whence is it derived that the Pesach is nothar after midnight? For it is written (Exodus 12:8): "And they shall eat the flesh on this night," and (Ibid. 12): "And I shall pass through the land of Egypt on this night." Just as there (12), until midnight; here (8) too, until midnight.] Pigul and nothar render one's hands unclean. If he made the blessing for the Pesach ["…who sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us to eat the Pesach"], he exempts the sacrifice. If he made the blessing for the sacrifice ["…who sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us to eat the sacrifice"], he exempts the Pesach. [The "sacrifice" here is the festival offering (chagigah) of the fourteenth of Nissan.] These are the words of R. Yishmael. R. Akiva says: This does not exempt that and that does not exempt this. [The halachah is in accordance with R. Akiva.]

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