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Mishnah: On the first Festival day of Sukkot there were 13 bulls, two rams, and one goat there. The Mishnah proceeds to discuss the division of labor for the Festival offerings among the 24 priestly watches, all of which serve in the Temple on the pilgrimage Festivals. The 16 offerings mentioned a
On the second day of the Festival, i.e., the 1st day of the intermediate days, when 12 bulls were sacrificed, 15 of the priestly watches sacrifice the bulls, rams, and goat, 5 of the remaining watches sacrifice two sheep each, and the remaining 4 watches sacrifice one sheep each. On the third day of
On the 4th day of the Festival, when 10 bulls were sacrificed, 13 of the priestly watches sacrifice the bulls, rams, and goat, 3 of the remaining watches sacrifice two sheep each, and the remaining 8 watches sacrifice one sheep each. On the fifth day, when 9 bulls were sacrificed, 12 watches sacrifi
On the 7th day they are all equal and bring one offering each. On the 8th day, when there was a completely different configuration of offerings, they returned to the standard lottery system used to determine which of the priestly watches would sacrifice the offerings, as they did on the other pilgri
Talmud: The Talmud suggests: Let us say that the Mishnah that says that on the 8th day they returned to the standard lottery of the other pilgrimage Festivals is according to R' Yehuda HaNasi and not according to the Rabbis. As it is taught in a baraita: To determine the priestly watch that would s