He brought her minchah-offering in an Egyptian basket and put it on her hands so as to tire her. All minchah-offerings start and finish in service-vessels, but this one starts in an Egyptian basket and finishes in service-vessels. All minchah-offerings require oil and frankincense, but this one requires neither oil nor frankin- cense. All minchah-offerings are of wheat [flour], but this one is of barley [flour]. The minchah-offering of the omer, though of barley [flour], is of sifted flour; but this one is of unsifted flour. Rabban Gamliel says: Just as her deeds were like those of an animal, so too her offering is [from] the food of animals.

He brought a new earthenware cup and put half a log of water from the kiyor into it; R’ Yehudah says: A quarter [of a log]. Just as he minimizes the [amount of] writing [required], so too he minimizes the [amount of] water [required].  He entered the Sanctuary and turned to his right —- where there was a spot one cubit by one cubit with a marble flagstone with a ring fixed in it; and when he raised it, he took dust from beneath it. He added enough to be visible on the water, as it is stated (v. 17): And the Kohen shall take from the dust that will be on the Tabernacle floor and add it to the water.