Mesorat%20hashas for Zevachim 124:4

תנן התם כבש היה לדרומה של מזבח אורך שלשים ושתים על רוחב שש עשרה מנא ה"מ אמר רב הונא אמר קרא (ויקרא א, יא) ושחט אותו על ירך המזבח צפונה שיהא ירך בצפון ופניו בדרום

Said R'Joseph: Is not that which was taught: Upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev.I, 8.');">⁹</span> [this intimates] that the wood must not project at all beyond the altar?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e. beyond the place of the pile. Rashi: why then must it be a stumped cubit; it could be exactly a cubit? Tosaf. and Sh. M.: how then can it be a 'generous' cubit? - The objection remains unanswered.');">¹⁰</span> We learnt elsewhere: There was an ascent at the south [side] of the altar, thirty-two [cubits] in length by sixteen cubits in breadth.

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