A bird chatas is offered below [the Altar’s Red Line], and an animal chatas [is offered] above [the Red Line]. A bird olah is offered above [the Red Line], and an animal olah [is offered] below [the Red Line]. If he deviated in this [case] or in that [case], [the offering is] invalid.  The order of pairs [of bird-offerings] is as follows: [In] the [pairs brought for an] obligation, one [bird] is a chatas and one [bird] is an olah; in [pairs brought for] vowed-offerings and donated-offerings, they are all olos.  What is a vowed-offering? One who says: “It is hereby incumbent upon me [to bring] an olah-offering.”And what is a donated-offering? One who says: “This [bird] is [hereby sanctified as] an olah-offering.”  What is [the difference] between vowed-offerings and donated-offerings? Only that regarding the vowed-offerings, [if] they died or were stolen, he is responsible for [replacing] them, and [regarding donated-offerings, [if] they died or were stolen, he is not responsible for replacing them.

A chatas [bird] which mingled with a [number of] olah [birds] or an olah [bird which mingled] with a [number of] chatas [birds], even if one [such bird-offering mingled] with ten thousand [bird-offerings of the other type], they must all be left to die.  A chatas bird which mingled with an obligatory pair [of bird-offerings], there are none valid other than the number of chatas birds in the obligatory pair.  And likewise, an olah bird which mingled with an obligatory pair [of bird-offerings], there are none valid other than the number of olah-birds in the obligatory pair.  [These rules apply] whether the obligatory [bird-offerings] are more numerous and the voluntary [bird-offerings] are less numerous, [or] whether the voluntary [bird-offerings] are more numerous and the obligatory [bird offerings] are less numerous, [or] whether they are both equal [in number].

In what [case] are [these] words said? With obligatory pairs [of bird offerings] and voluntary [bird offerings which mingled together]. But with obligatory pairs [of bird offerings] which mingled with each other, one [pair] for this [woman] and one [pair] for that [woman], [or] two [pairs] for this [woman] and two [pairs] for that [woman], [or] three [pairs] for this [woman] and three [pairs] for that [woman], half [of the mingled birds] are valid [to be offered] and half [of the birds] are invalid [to be offered]. [If, however, there was] one [pair of obligatory bird offerings] for this [woman] and two [such pairs] for that [woman], or three [such pairs] for that [woman], or ten [such pairs] for that [woman], or a hundred [such pairs] for that [woman], the [amount of birds in the] smallest [group] is valid [to be offered], whether [they are brought for] the same obligation [or] whether [they are brought for] two [different] obligations, whether [they are brought] from one woman [or] whether [they are brought] from two [different] women.

What is the case of [the two groups of offerings being brought] for one [type of] obligation? [If the first group of offerings was brought for one incident of a woman giving] birth and [the other group or groups were also brought for incidents of giving] birth, [or if the first group of offerings was brought for one occurrence of] zivah and [the other group or groups were also brought for occurrences of] zivah, [these are cases of both groups being brought] for one [type of] obligation.  [And what is the case of the two groups of offerings being brought] for two [different types of] obligations? [If one group was brought for] a birth and [the other group was brought for occurrences of] zivah.  What is the case of [the two groups of offerings being brought from] two women? [If the two groups of birds were brought to atone] for this woman [upon giving] birth and [to atone] for that woman [upon giving] birth, [or if the two groups of birds were brought to atone] for this woman [for an occurrence of] zivah and [to atone] for that woman [for an occurrence of] zivah, [these are cases of the groups belonging to both women being brought] for one [type of] obligation.  [And what is the case of the groups of offerings for two women being brought] for two [different types of] obligations? [if one group of offerings was brought to atone] for this woman [upon giving] birth and [the other group of offerings was brought to atone] for that woman [upon an occurrence of] zivah.  R’ Yose says: Two women [who were obligated to bring bird-offerings] who took their pairs of birds [for their offerings] mixed together [without designating which particular birds would belong to which woman], or [if] they [together] gave the purchase money for their pairs of birds to the Kohen [who sells these birds, without designating which money belongs to whom], the Kohen may offer whichever [birds] he wishes as a chatas, and he may offer whichever [birds] he wishes as an olah, whether [they are both brought] for the same [type of] obligation [or] whether [they are each brought] for two different [types of] obligations.

Those in the north: the Wood Chamber, the Diaspora Chamber, the Chamber of Hewn Stone. [Regarding] the Wood Chamber, R’ Eliezer ben Yaakov said: I forgot what purpose it served. Abba Shaul says: [It was] the Kohen Gadol’s chamber; and it was behind the other two [chambers], and the roofs of all three [chambers] were the same height. The Diaspora Chamber: There a well was located; and a wheel was placed over [the well], and from there [drinking] water would be supplied to all the [people in the] Courtyard. The Chamber of Hewn Stone: there the Great Sanhedrin of Israel would sit and judge the priesthood. A Kohen in whom a disqualification was found would clothe himself in black and wrap his head in black, and would leave [the chamber] and go. [A Kohen] in whom no disqualification was found would clothe himself in white and wrap his head in white; he would enter [the Courtyard] and serve with his brethren the Kohanim. They would make a day of celebration [to thank God] that no disqualification was found in the descendants of Aaron the Kohen. And thus they would proclaim: “Blessed is the Omnipresent, Blessed is He, for no disqualification was found in the descendants of Aaron. And Blessed is He Who chose Aaron and his sons to stand and serve before God in the chamber of the Holy of Holies.”