The appointed one said to them: “Go out and see if the time for slaughtering has arrived.” If [the time] had arrived, the observer says: “Dawn!” Masya ben Shmuel says: The entire eastern sky has lit up. “As far as Hebron?” And [the observer] says, “Yes!”

The appointed one] said to them: “Go out and bring a lamb from the Chamber of Lambs.” Now, the Chamber of Lambs was in the northwest corner [of the Hall of the Fire], and four chambers were [located] there: One [was] the Chamber of Lambs, and one [was] the Chamber of Receipts, and one [was] the Chamber of the Hall of the Fire, and one [was] a chamber in which they made the Show Bread.