Halakhah for Eduyot 6:1

רַבִּי יְהוּדָה בֶּן בָּבָא הֵעִיד חֲמִשָּׁה דְבָרִים. שֶׁמְּמָאֲנִים אֶת הַקְּטַנּוֹת, וְשֶׁמַּשִּׂיאִין אֶת הָאִשָּׁה עַל פִּי עֵד אֶחָד, וְשֶׁנִּסְקַל תַּרְנְגוֹל בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם עַל שֶׁהָרַג אֶת הַנֶּפֶשׁ, וְעַל הַיַּיִן בֶּן אַרְבָּעִים יוֹם שֶׁנִּתְנַסֵּךְ עַל גַּב הַמִּזְבֵּחַ, וְעַל תָּמִיד שֶׁל שַׁחַר שֶׁקָּרַב בְּאַרְבַּע שָׁעוֹת:

R. Yehudah ben Bava testified in five instances, viz.: minors are taught to refuse [If two brothers were married to two (orphaned) sisters, one an adult and the other, a minor — if the adult's husband died, so that she was "linked" for yibum to the husband of the minor, her linkage overrides the marriage of her sister, the minor, and forbids her to him, the marriage of the minor being reckoned naught. (In this instance,) the minor is taught to "refuse" him, and her refusal ("miun") dissolves his first marriage and he is permitted to take the older sister in yibum. And there is another instance similar to this one in Yevamoth, in the chapter "Beth Shammai."] And (he testified) that a woman may be married on the testimony of one witness. [If her husband went abroad and one witness alone came and said that he had died, she is married on the strength of his testimony.] And (he testified) that a rooster was stoned in Jerusalem because it had killed someone [(It had gnawed out an infant's brain.) And even though it is written (Exodus 21:18): "If an ox gore, etc.," the same applies to all beasts, animals, and birds. For wherever "ox" is written, we derive "ox" - "ox" from Shabbath. Just as there, all beasts, animals, and birds are included, so, here.] And (he testified that) wine must be forty days old for altar libations. [Before then it is forbidden, being considered "wine from his wine-press."] And [he testified about the morning daily burnt-offering that it may be sacrificed in the fourth hour of the day. [For once, in the days of the kingdom of Greece, they had no lambs for burnt-offerings, and they waited to sacrifice the daily morning burnt-offering until the Holy One Blessed be He enlightened their eyes and they found two approved lambs in the lamb pen and sacrificed the morning daily burnt-offering in the fourth hour of the day.]

Sefer HaChinukh

From the laws of the commandment - that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Yoma 28a) that the time of their slaughter is, of the one lamb of the morning before the rising of the sun, from when the entire face of the East is light, and once in the Second Temple, the time pushed the community and they sacrificed the regular sacrifice of the morning at four hours in the day (Mishnah Eduyot 6:1); and the time of the second lamb of the afternoon is from six and a half hours and onward until the end of the day (Pesachim 58a), but [in fact,] they would always sacrifice it at eight and a half hours and offer it at nine and a half [hours], and these two hours that they would delay it were in order that that they could sacrifice individual and community sacrifices in between, as it is forbidden to sacrifice another sacrifice after the afternoon sacrifice; [that] the process of the regular afternoon sacrifice was like the process of the regular morning sacrifice, except that the one of the morning was sacrificed in the northeastern corner of the room of the slaughterers on the second ring, and [the one] of the afternoon was in the northwestern corner on the second ring, so that it be in front of the sun; and the rest of its details - are elucidated in Tractate Tamid and in the second chapter of Yoma (see Mishneh Torah, Laws of Daily Offerings and Additional Offerings 1).

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