Once every thirty days they would set the price paid by the [treasury] chamber. Whoever undertook to supply fine flour at four [se’ah for a sela], and [the price subsequently] stood at [only] three [se’ah for a sela], must supply at four; [but if he undertook to supply at] three [se’ah for a sela], and [the price subsequently] stood at four, he must supply at four, for the Temple has the upper hand.  [Likewise,] if the fine flour became wormy, the loss is his; and if the wine soured, the loss is his. He does not receive his money until the altar atones.

These are the administrators who were in the Temple: Yochanan ben Pinchas over the tokens; Achiyah over the nesachim; Matisyah ben Shmuel over the lots; Pesachyah over the bird-offerings. [This] Pesachyah is Mordechai [of Megillas Esther;] so why is he called Pesachyah? Because he was able to open up [mysterious] matters and investigate them, and he knew sev-enty languages; Ben Achiyah over [the treatment of] stomach disorders; Nechunya, the digger of pits; Gevini, the crier; Ben Gever over the locking of the gates; Ben Bevai over the whip; Ben Arzah over the cymbal; Hugras, a Levi, over the singing; the Garmu family over the preparation of the Panim Bread; the Avtinas family over the preparation of the incense; Elazar over the curtains; and Pinchas over the vestments.

There may not be less than three treasurers [in the Temple] nor [less than] seven superiors; nor may financial authority be set up over the community with less than two [officers], except for Achiyah who was in charge of [the treatment of] stomach disorders and Elazar who was in charge of the curtains, because most of the community accepted them over itself.

There were four [different] tokens in the Temple, and inscribed upon them were [the Hebrew words for] “calf,” “ram,” “kid,” “sinner” [respectively].  Ben Azzai says: There were five, and inscribed upon them were [the] Aramaic [words for] “calf,” “ram,” “kid,” “indigent sinner,” “wealthy sinner.”  [The] “calf” [token] serves for nesachim of cattle, [whether] adult or young, male or female. [The] “kid” [token] serves for nesachim of the flock, [whether] adult or young, male or fe-male, except for adult rams. [The] “ram” [token] serves for nesachim of rams only. [The] “sinner” [token] serves for nesachim of the three animals [comprising the offering] of metzoraim.