Tosefta for Pesachim 128:12
כהנים עומדין שורות וכו': מאי טעמא אילימא דילמא שקלי דדהבא ומעיילי דכספא הכא נמי דילמא שקלי בר מאתן ומעיילי בר מאה אלא דהכי שפיר טפי:
He [thereupon] took a kidney from each, and six-hundred-thousand pairs of kidneys were found there, twice as many as those who departed from Egypt, excluding those who were unclean and those who were on a distant journey; and there was not a single Paschal lamb for which more than ten people had not registered; and they called it, 'The Passover of the dense throngs.' 'He took a kidney'! but it required burning [on the altar]? He burned them subsequently.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After the event.');"><sup>10</sup></span>
Tosefta Pesachim
One time King [Herod] Agrippa sought to find out how many were the multitudes [of Israelites], and he said to the Kohanim, separate for me a kidney from each and every Passover offering, and they separated for him six hundred thousand pairs of kidneys, double the number of the exodus from Egypt, and there was not any Passover offering that did not have at least ten registrants, not including those who [could not attend because they] were impure or that had too long of a distance to travel. On that day, they entered the Temple Mount and it could not hold all of them, and they called it the "Passover of the crushed."
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