Quoting%20commentary for Eruvin 10:14

כֹּהֵן שֶׁלָּקָה בְאֶצְבָּעוֹ, כּוֹרֵךְ עָלֶיהָ גֶמִי בַמִּקְדָּשׁ, אֲבָל לֹא בַמְּדִינָה. אִם לְהוֹצִיא דָם, כָּאן וְכָאן אָסוּר. בּוֹזְקִין מֶלַח עַל גַּבֵּי כֶבֶשׁ בִּשְׁבִיל שֶׁלֹּא יַחֲלִיקוּ, וּמְמַלְּאִים מִבּוֹר הַגּוֹלָה וּמִבּוֹר הַגָּדוֹל בַּגַּלְגַּל בְּשַׁבָּת, וּמִבְּאֵר הַקַּר בְּיוֹם טוֹב:

If a Cohein had a sore on his finger, he may wrap bast around it, [even though it heals the sore. Since at the moment it is a requirement for the service, it being unseemly for the sore to be visible during the service, it may be covered with bast.] (He may wrap bast around it) in the Temple, but not outside it, [healing on Shabbath being shvuth, and forbidden.] And if to remove blood, [i.e., tightening the bast to remove blood], it is forbidden in both places, [this being (the proto-labor) "chovel" (making a wound), and a proto-labor was not permitted in the Temple.] Salt may be crushed [and spread out] upon the ramp [leading up to the altar], so that they not slip, [for it was smooth, and sometimes they slipped and fell upon it.], but not outside it, [this constituting "repairing."] It is permitted to draw water on Shabbath from "the well of the exile" and from "the great well," [which were found in the chambers of the Temple court] with a wheel [made for raising the pail with ropes. It is only with these two wells that this was permitted, but with others, it was forbidden — a decree lest one draw water for his garden and for his dry land on Shabbath, the task being made easier (by the wheel). And in a place where there are no grounds for such a decree, it is permitted to draw water with a wheel. And we are not apprehensive as to the wheel's producing a sound, only musical sound production being forbidden (on Shabbath). Along the same lines, it is permitted to knock on the door or the gate on Shabbath.], and (it is permitted to draw water) from "the kar well" on a festival. [Because it was a spring-well, they called it "the kar well," as in "makor" ("source"). This well was needed by the men of the exile on a festival, and the prophets among them, Chaggai and Zechariah, permitted their drawing water from it by wheel. And their permit remained in effect, allowing them to do so even outside the Temple on a festival, as opposed to (the ruling for) other spring-wells.]

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