They began bringing up logs to arrange the fire of the pyre. But are all the woods valid for the pyre? Yes! All the woods are valid for the pyre, except for that of an olive [tree] and of a vine. However, with these [woods] they were accustomed: with branches of a fig [tree], and of a nut [tree] and of an oil tree.

[The Kohen] arranged the large pyre to-ward the east, and [the pyre’s] “face” [was] toward the east; and the heads of the inner logs would touch the mound; and there was space between the logs, for they would kindle the chips from there.