Eight Tables for Sacrifices

A chamber beside the inner gateway is designated for washing burnt offerings, and tables are arranged on both sides of the portico for slaughtering burnt, sin, and guilt offerings. Altogether there are eight such tables, plus dressed-stone tables for the sacrificial utensils. Hooks are fixed around the room, and the flesh of offerings is placed on the tables.

T³⁸here was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed. ³⁹Inside the portico of the gateway were two tables on each side, on which the burnt offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings were to be slaughtered. ⁴⁰Outside, as one goes up to the entrance of the north gateway, there were two tables on one side and two more tables on the other side of the gate’s portico. ⁴¹So there were four tables inside the gateway and four outside — eight tables in all — on which the sacrifices were to be slaughtered. ⁴²There were also four tables of dressed stone for the burnt offering, each a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit high. On these were placed the utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices. ⁴³The double-pronged hooks, each a handbreadth long, were fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be placed on the tables.