They make no fewer than twenty-one trumpet blasts in the Temple, and no more than forty-eight.  Every day there were twenty-one trumpet blasts in the Temple: three for the opening of the gates; nine for the daily morning burnt-offering; and nine for the daily afternoon burnt-offering. With the mussaf-offerings they added another nine. And on the eve of the Sabbath they added another six: three to stop the people from work; and three to distinguish between the sacred and the secular.  On the eve of the Sabbath during Succos, there were forty-eight: three for the opening of the gates; three for the Upper Gate; three for the Lower Gate; three at the filling of the water; three on top of the Altar; nine for the daily morning burnt-offering; nine for the daily afternoon burnt-offering; and nine for the mussaf-offerings; three to stop the people from work; and three to distinguish between the sacred and the secular.