Halakhah for Yoma 86:9
<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> שחטו וקבל במזרק את דמו ונותנו למי שהוא ממרס בו על הרובד הרביעי שבהיכל כדי שלא יקרוש נטל מחתה ועלה לראש המזבח ופנה גחלים אילך ואילך וחותה מן המעוכלות הפנימיות וירד והניחה על הרובד הרביעי שבעזרה
LEST IT CONGEAL.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Through being kept there until the time of the smoking of the incense.');"><sup>10</sup></span> HE TOOK THE COAL-PAN AND WENT UP TO THE TOP OF THE ALTAR, CLEARING THE COALS TO BOTH SIDES, TOOK A PANFUL OF THE GLOWING CINDERS FROM BELOW, CAME DOWN AND PLACED THE COAL-PAN ON THE FOURTH TERRACE IN THE TEMPLE COURT.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Now he would take the incense with his hands and place it in the golden pan.');"><sup>11</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
And they would make three arrangements of fire on the altar every day. The first one was large, [and] upon it were the daily sacrifice and the other sacrifices offered; the second one on its side was smaller than it, [and] the fire was taken from it in the censer to burn the incense every day; and the third arrangement did not have anything upon it, so as to fulfill the commandment of the fire, as it is stated, "A perpetual fire shall burn, etc." (Yoma 43b). And there are three passages about the topic, which instruct about these three arrangements, as we learned from the tradition. As they, may their memory be blessed, said (Yoma 45b), "'Upon its burning' (Leviticus 6:2), that is the large arrangement; 'and the fire of the altar shall burn upon it' (Leviticus 6:2), that is the second arrangement of the incense; 'And the fire of the altar shall burn upon it' (Leviticus 6:5), that is the third arrangement for the fulfillment of the fire." And the rest of its details are elucidated in the fourth chapter of Yoma and the second of Tamid.
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