The [afternoon] daily offering is [usually] slaughtered at eight and a half [hours], and offered at nine and a half [hours].  On the eve of Pesach it is slaughtered at seven and a half [hours], and offered at eight and a half [hours], whether it is a weekday or the Sabbath.  [If] the eve of Pesach fell on the eve of the Sabbath, it is slaughtered at six and a half [hours], and offered at seven and a half [hours]. The pesach [-sacrifice is offered] after it.

The pesach-offering that one slaughtered for some other designation, or [the Kohen] received, transported, or threw [its blood], for some other designation, or for its own designation and [then] for some other designation, or for some other designation and [then] for its own designation, is invalid.  What is an example of, “For its own designation and [then] for some other designation”? —- For the designation of a pesach-offering [first] and [then] for the designation of a peace-offering. [What is an example of,] “For some other designation and [then] for its own designation”? —- For the designation of a peace-offering and [then] for the designation of a pesach-offering.

[If] he slaughtered it for other than those who can eat it, for other than its registrants, for uncircumcised or contaminated [persons], it is invalid. [If he slaughtered it] for those who can eat it and for those who cannot eat it, for its registrants and for other than its registrants, for circumcised and for uncircumcised [persons], [or] for contaminated and for uncontaminated [persons], it is valid.  [If] he slaughtered it before noon, it is invalid, because it is said: In the afternoon (Exodus 12:6).  [If] he slaughtered it before the [afternoon] daily offering, it is valid, provided someone stirs its blood until the blood of the daily offering is thrown; yet if it was thrown, it is valid.

One who slaughters the pesach-offering with chametz [in his possession] is in violation of a negative command;  R' Yehudah says: Also the daily offering.  R' Shimon says: [If one slaughters] the pesach-offering on the fourteenth under its own designation, he is liable, but [if] under some other designation, he is not liable; and for all other sacrifices, whether [slaughtered] for their own designation or under some other designation, he is exempt. [And if one slaughters the pesach] during the festival, under its own designation, he is exempt; under some other designation, he is liable; and for all other sacrifices, whether [slaughtered] under their own designations, or under some other designations, he is liable, except for a sin-offering which he slaughtered under some other designation.

The pesach-offering was slaughtered in three groups — for it is written: And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter it (Exodus 12:6). [The verse mentions] “assembly,” “congregation,” and “Israel.”  The first group entered, [and when] the Temple Courtyard was filled, they closed the gates of the Temple Courtyard, and sounded a tekiah, a teruah, and again a tekiah. The Kohanim stood rows upon rows, and in their hands were silver bowls and golden bowls; one row was altogether of silver, the other row was altogether of gold; they were not mixed up together. Nor did the bowls have bases, lest they set them down and the blood congeal.

A Yisrael slaughtered it, and the Kohen received it, and he would hand it to his fellow and he to his fellow. He would accept the full one and return the empty one. The Kohen nearest the altar would throw it with one toss opposite the base.

When the first group left, the second group entered; when the second left, the third entered. Like the procedure of the first, so was the procedure of the second and the third. They recited the Hallel; if they finished it, they repeated it, and if the repetition was completed they would recite it a third time, although they never did recite it a third time. R' Yehudah says: The third group never reached as far as, I love, for HASHEM hears (Psalms 116:1), because its people were few.

Like its procedure on weekdays so was its procedure on the Sabbath, except that the Kohanim rinsed the Temple Courtyard without the consent of the Sages.  R' Yehudah says: He would fill a cup with the mixed blood [and] throw it once upon the altar; but the Sages did not agree with him.

How did they suspend and flay [them]? — Iron hooks were fixed into the walls and into the pillars, on which they suspended and flayed [the pesach]. Anyone for whom there was no room to suspend and flay [his animal], there were thin smooth staves there, which he placed upon his shoulder and upon the shoulder of his fellow and so hung and flayed [it].  R' Eliezer says: [If] the fourteenth fell on the Sabbath, he placed his hand on his fellow's shoulder, and the hand of his fellow [rested] upon his shoulder, and [thus] he suspended and flayed [it].

He tore it [open] and removed its sacrificial parts, put them in a plate and burned them upon the altar.  The first group went out and remained on the Temple Mount, the second [group] in the Chel, and the third [group] remained where they were. After dark, they went out and roasted their pesach-offerings.