Related%20passage for Bekhorot 2:9

יוֹצֵא דֹּפֶן וְהַבָּא אַחֲרָיו, רַבִּי טַרְפוֹן אוֹמִר, שְׁנֵיהֶם יִרְעוּ עַד שֶׁיִּסְתָּאֲבוּ וְיֵאָכְלוּ בְמוּמָן לַבְּעָלִים. רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא אוֹמֵר, שְׁנֵיהֶן אֵינָן בְּכוֹר, הָרִאשׁוֹן מִשּׁוּם שֶׁאֵינוֹ פֶטֶר רֶחֶם, וְהַשֵּׁנִי מִשּׁוּם שֶׁקִּדְּמוֹ אַחֵר:

If an animal was born through Cesarean section and [a natural birth] came after it, Rabbi Tarfon says: Both go out to graze until they develop blemishes and are eaten because of their blemishes by the owners. Rabbi 'Akiva says: Neither of them is a first born. The first [is not] because it did not open its mother’s womb, and the second [is not] because another preceded it.

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