Zehn Wunder geschahen unseren Vätern im Heiligtume: Nie gebar ein Weib unzeitig vom Geruche des heiligen Fleisches; nie wurde das heilige Fleisch übelriechend; nie wurde eine Fliege im Schlachthause gesehen; nie widerfuhr dem Hohenpriester am Versöhnungstage ein nächtlicher Zufall; nie verlöschte der Regen das Feuer des Altarholzes; nie bezwang der Wind die Rauchsäule; nie ward am Omer, an den beiden Broten und am Schaubrote eine Untauglichkeit gefunden; sie standen gedrängt und konnten sich bequem niederwerfen; nie schädigte eine Schlange oder ein Skorpion in Jerusalem; und nie sagte Einer zum Andern: „Mir ist der Ort zu enge, dass ich in Jerusalem übernachten soll“.
Avot DeRabbi Natan
Ten miracles were performed for our ancestors in the Holy Temple: [The sanctified meat never spoiled;] no woman ever miscarried after smelling the sanctified meat; [(Ten miracles were performed for our ancestors in Jerusalem:) no one was ever injured in Jerusalem;] no one stumbled and fell in Jerusalem; the fires of the altar were never extinguished in Jerusalem; no building ever collapsed in Jerusalem; no one in Jerusalem ever said: I cannot find an oven to cook the Passover offering; no one in Jerusalem ever said: I cannot find [an affordable] bed to sleep in; no one in Jerusalem ever said: This place is too cramped for me to stay in.
Ten miracles were performed for our ancestors in the Holy Temple: 1. Flies were never seen in the slaughterhouse. 2. No high priest ever had an emission on Yom Kippur – except for Rabbi Yishmael ben Kimkhit, who went out to speak with a certain official, and some saliva came out of [the official’s] mouth and fell on the clothes [of Rabbi Yishmael], and so his brother went in to serve as the high priest in his place. So his mother was able to see two of her sons serve as the high priest on the same day. The sages saw her and asked her, “How did you merit this honor?” She replied, “Because the walls of my house never saw my hair uncovered.” (3. No one in Jerusalem was ever hurt, and no one was ever injured, or stumbled and fell, in the Holy Temple.) 4. No woman ever miscarried after smelling the sanctified meat. 5. The priests never disqualified the holy offerings. And when they ate the holy meat, they would drink from the waters of the Shiloach and it would digest in their stomachs like regular food.