Mesorat%20hashas for Menachot 22:9

ואמר רמי בר חמא הפריש לה שני קמצין ואבד אחד מהן קודם קמיצה לא הוקבעו אחר קמיצה הוקבעו

all agree that there must be two handfuls at the outset and two handfuls in the end.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., there must be a handful of frankincense in each dish from the time that they are set upon the table up to the time they are removed to be burnt. kf');">¹⁵</span> Surely this is obvious!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since there is here no Biblical term or expression, like , to indicate that a diminution of the prescribed quantity is allowed.');">¹⁶</span> - You might have thought that since [the frankincense in the two dishes] is brought together with the Shewbread it is in the same category as that which is offered with a meal-offering; we are therefore taught [that it is not so].

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