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The Mishna, Pesahim

5.5 The Passover-offering was slaughtered [by the people] in three groups for it is written, And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter it - 'assembly', 'congregation', and 'Israel'. When the first group entered in and the Temple Court was filled, the gates of the Temple Court were closed. [On the Shofar] a sustained, a quavering, and again a sustained blast were blown. The priests stood in rows and in their hands were basons of silver and basons of gold. In one row all the basons were silver and in another row all the basons were of gold. They were not mixed up together. Nor had the basons bases, lest the priests should set them down and the blood congeal.
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