The tamid-offerings are not essential to the [validity of the] mussaf-offerings; nor are the mussaf-offerings essential to the [validity of the] tamid-offerings; nor are the mussaf-offerings essential to each other’s [validity]. [If] they did not offer a lamb in the morning, they should [nonetheless] offer [one] in the afternoon. Said R’ Shimon: When? When they acted under constraint or unwittingly. However, if they [acted] intentionally and did not offer the lamb in the morning, they may not offer [one] in the afternoon. [If] they did not burn the incense in the morning, they burn [it] in the afternoon. Said R’ Shimon: All of it was offered in the afternoon. For the Golden Altar was dedicated only with the [burning of the] incense; and the Olah Altar only with the tamid of the morning; and the shulchan only with the lechem hapanim on the Sabbath; and the menorah only with its seven lamps in the afternoon.

The chavitin of the Kohen Gadol were not brought by halves; rather, he brings a full issaron and divides it, and offers half in the morning and half in the afternoon. [If] a Kohen offered half in the morning and died, and they appointed another Kohen in his place, he should not bring half an issaron of his own, nor the half of the first one’s issaron; rather, he brings a full issaron and divides it in half, and he offers half, and half is destroyed. Thus, two halves are offered and two halves are destroyed. [If] they did not appoint another Kohen, from whom was it brought? R’ Shimon says: From the public. R’ Yehudah says: From the heirs. And it was offered whole.

All minchah-offerings are brought as matzah except for the leavened [bread] of the todah-offering and the shtei halechem, which are brought leavened. R’ Meir says: He abstracts sourdough for them from within themselves and leavens them. R’ Yehudah says: This, too, is not preferred. Rather, he brings sourdough, places it within the measure, and then fills the measure. They said to him: This, too, would be deficient or excessive.

All minchah-offerings are kneaded with lukewarm water, and one guards them from becoming leavened. If its remainder became leavened, he transgresses a prohibition; as it is written (Lev. 2:11): Any minchah-offering which you shall offer to HASHEM shall not be made leavened. And they are liable for its kneading, its arrangement, and for its baking.