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חָל לִהְיוֹת יוֹם אֶחָד לְהַפְסִיק בֵּינְתַיִם, מִשְׁמָר שֶׁזְּמַנּוֹ קָבוּעַ, הָיָה נוֹטֵל עֶשֶׂר חַלּוֹת, וְהַמִּתְעַכֵּב נוֹטֵל שְׁתָּיִם. וּבִשְׁאָר יְמוֹת הַשָּׁנָה, הַנִּכְנָס נוֹטֵל שֵׁשׁ, וְהַיּוֹצֵא נוֹטֵל שֵׁשׁ. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, הַנִּכְנָס נוֹטֵל שֶׁבַע, וְהַיּוֹצֵא נוֹטֵל חָמֵשׁ. הַנִּכְנָסִין חוֹלְקִין בַּצָּפוֹן, וְהַיּוֹצְאִין בַּדָּרוֹם. בִּלְגָּה לְעוֹלָם חוֹלֶקֶת בַּדָּרוֹם, וְטַבַּעְתָּהּ קְבוּעָה, וְחַלּוֹנָהּ סְתוּמָה:

If it (the festival) fell out so that one day separated them (Shabbath and the festival), the fixed watch takes ten chaloth and the tarrying (watches), two, [i.e., If the first day of the festival fell on Monday, in which instance they (the other watches) could have come on Sunday, and they came earlier, on Friday — or if the last day of the festival fell on Thursday, in which instance they (the incumbent watches) could have left on Friday, and they remained there for Shabbath — all of the tarrying watches take only two chaloth, and the fixed watch takes ten, which are divided between the incoming and the outgoing watch as on all the Sabbaths of the year.] And on the other days of the year, the incoming watch takes six and the outgoing watch takes six. [For the watches change on Shabbath, one performing the morning service; the other, the evening.] R. Yehudah says: The incoming takes seven and the outgoing five. [The incoming takes two additional chaloth for locking the doors, [which the outgoing watch opened in the morning. The halachah is not in accordance with R. Yehudah.] The incoming divide [the breads due them] in the north [so that it be evident to all that they are entering, the north being the prime location, designated for the slaughtering of holy of holies], and the outgoing, in the south [so that it be evident that they are leaving — wherefore they changed their location to one which is not prime.] [The watch of] Bilga always divides in the south, [even upon entering], and its ring is clamped down. [There were twenty-four rings in the azarah at the slaughtering site for the twenty-four priestly watches. The rings of all the watches were open on one end. They were turned upwards, the animal's neck was placed inside, and they were then turned downwards into the ground. The ring of Bilga was clamped down and could not be turned, so that it had to use the rings of others, and it was demeaned thereby], and its window was closed [There were windows in the lishkoth of the (priestly) vestments where they secreted their knives; and the window of the watch of Bilga was closed, the rabbis having penalized it because of a particular episode, viz.: A woman of (i.e., kin to one of) the watch of Bilga, Miriam the daughter of Bilga, became an apostate and married a Greek officer. When the Greeks entered the sanctuary, she went and kicked the altar with her sandal, crying: "Lukos ("wolf" in Greek), Lukos, how long will you (continue) to consume the wealth of Israel and not stand up for them in time of need!" And when the sages heard of this (after the ascendancy of the Hasmoneans), they clamped down the ring and closed the window to the entire watch of Bilga, saying that if she had not heard her father demeaning the priestly service, she never would have spoken thus. And because of her father they penalized the entire family — "Woe to the wicked one, and woe to his neighbor! Happy is the righteous one, and happy is his neighbor!"

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