The daily sacrifice was offered with nine [Kohanim, or] with ten, [or] with eleven, [or] with twelve, no less and no more. How so? [The sacrifice] itself —- with nine. On Succos one held a flask of water in his hand; thus we have ten. In the afternoon —- with eleven: [the sacrifice] itself with nine, plus two who held two logs in their hands.  On the Sabbath —- with eleven: [the sacri- fice] itself with nine, plus two who held [the] two spoons of frankincense of the Panim Bread in their hands. On the Sab-bath during Succos —- one held a flask of water in his hand.

A ram was offered with eleven: the meat with five; the intestines, the fine flour, and the wine —- with two each.

An ox was offered with twenty-four: the head and the hind leg —- the head with one, and the hind leg with two; the tail and the hind leg —- the tail with two, and the hind leg with two; the breast and the neck —- the breast with one, and the neck with three; [the] two forelegs with two; [the] two sides with two; the intestines, the fine flour, and the wine —- with three each.  In which cases do the above apply? For communal sacrifices; but for personal sacrifices, if he wanted to offer, he may do so.  The flaying and dissection of these and of those are the same.

The administrator said to them, “Go out and see if the time for slaughtering has arrived.” If it had arrived, the one who sees [it] says, “Barkai!”  Mattisya ben Shmuel says: “The whole of the east has lit up.”  “As far as Hebron?”  And he says, “Yes!”