Reference for Menachot 123:5

והכתיב (ויקרא ט, כ) וישימו את החלבים על החזות ההוא דיהיב ליה לכהן אחרינא ואזיל ומקטר ליה

- This refers to the handing over of these to the priest that is about to burn them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The priest that waved them when handing them to another priest to be burnt would naturally turn them over into that other priest's hands, so that now the fat would be on top.');">⁹</span> These verses incidentally teach us that three priests are required [for this part of the service], as it is said, In the multitude of people is the king's glory.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prov. XIV, 28. kg');">¹⁰</span>

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