They entered the Chamber of Vessels and took out from there ninety-three silver and gold vessels. They gave the tamid [lamb] to drink with a cup of gold. Even though [the animal] had been examined before evening, they examine it by the light of the torches.

The one who won the privilege of the tamid pulls it and goes to the slaughtering area, and [those] who won the privilege of [carrying] the limbs fol-low him. The slaughtering area was [located] to the north of [the] Altar, and on it were eight dwarf pillars, and a square of cedar [was] on top of them, and iron hooks were set into [the cedar blocks], and there were three sets [of hooks] for each and every one, from which they would hang [the animals] and skin [them], upon marble tables that [stood] between the pillars.