to the top of the altar itself, for it is written: And the like of the very heaven for clearness. Why does he just sprinkle first as due with the burnt-offering, and afterwards as due with the sin-offering? Let him first sprinkle as due in case of a sin-offering and after that as due with a burnt-offering! — Because it is a burnt-offering, it comes first. And why does he just sprinkle north-east and south-west. Let him sprinkle south-east and then north-west? — I will tell you: The burnt-offering requires the [projecting] base [of the altar], and the south-eastern corner has no [projecting] base. — Why does he sprinkle first north-east and then south-west, let him sprinkle south-west and then northeast? — Since a master said: All the turns you make in the Temple must be to the right, the east, he comes first to that [north-east]. Whence do you know that it is with the burnt-offering that the Divine Law states that it should be offered up in the manner due to a sin-offering? May it not be that it is with regard to the sin-offering that the Torah says: Offer it up after the manner of the burnt-offerings? — Let not that thought arise in you. For it is written: Beside the continual burnt-offering and the drink-offering thereof’. What does the Divine Law mean by this? Apply the measures [forms] of the sin-offering to the burnt-offering. We have learnt there: The memuneh said to them: Go and bring a lamb from the Cell of the Lambs. Now the Cell of the Lambs was in the north-western corner. Four cells were there: one was the Cell of the Lambs; one the Cell of the Seals; one the Cell of the Fireplace, and one cell, in which the shewbread was made. They raised an objection: There were four rooms in the Cell of the Fireplace, like small rooms opening into a reception room; two on holy ground, two outside of holy ground; and the ends of the flagstones [in the pavement] indicated the mark between the sacred and the secular grounds. What was their use? The south-western was the Cell of the Lambs for offerings;ᵃᵇᶜᵈᵉᶠᵍʰⁱʲᵏˡᵐⁿ