Tosefta su Numeri 28:34

On the first Yom Tov of Passover we read the section (Lev. 23) on "waving" that is in Torat Kohanim (i.e., Leviticus), and the remainder of all the days of Passover, we skip to other subjects [involving] Passover that are written in the Torah. On Shavuot [we read the section beginning with] "Seven weeks" (Deut. 16:9) and there are those that say [we read the passage beginning] "In the third month" (Ex. 19:1). On Rosh Hashanah [we read the passage beginning] "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, On the seventh month, on the first of the month, etc." (Lev. 23:24), and there are those that say [we read the passage beginning] "And the Lord remembered Sarah" (Gen. 21:1). On Yom Kippur we read "After the death" (Lev. 16:1), and we add "On the tenth" (Num. 28:12), which is in the Book of Numbers (see also Yoma 7:1). On the first Yom Tov of Sukkot (lit., "Festival") we read [the passage beginning] "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Sukkot, etc." (Lev. 23:34), and on the second day [we begin with] "On the second day," on the third [we begin with] "On the third day," on the fourth [we bigin with] "And on the fourth], on the fifth [we begin with] "And on the fifth," on the sixth [we begin with] "And on the sixth," on the seventh [we begin with] "And on the seventh," and on the eighth [we begin with] "And on the eighth" (see Num. 29).

On a Rosh Chodesh that falls on Chanukah, we read (Num. 28:11), "And on the first of your months [etc.]." At the place that they leave off [the Torah reading] in the morning service on Shabbat, they begin from that point in the afternoon service. [Where they leave off] in the afternoon service, they begin from that point on Monday, [and from where they leave off] on Monday, they begin from point on Thursday, [and from where they leave off] on Thursday, they begin from that point on the next Shabbat. Rabbi Yehuda says, at the place where they leave off [the Torah reading] in the morning service on Shabbat, they begin from there on the next Shabbat.

There were two silver bowls on the top of the altar, one for water and the other for wine ; that on the western side for water, that on the eastern for wine. If the priest poured the wine into that meant for the water, or vice versa, he complied with legal requirements. Rabbi Yehudah said, "The bowls were of plaster, but had become black because of the stain of the wine ; and they had cavities like two slender snouts, by which the water and the wine went down into the pipe, and which they constructed when the Temple was built."The water and the wine go down to Shith, and are swallowed up in the midst of it, as it is said, In the holy place thou shalt pour out a drink offering of strong drink unto the Lord. So a place was made for it to be swallowed up in a consecrated way. Rabbi Yose says, Shith was hollowed to the abyss, as it is said, Let me sing of my beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard ; my beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill ; and he digged it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it that is the Temple and hewed out a winepress therein that is the altar ; and also, hewed out a winepress therein that refers, too, to Shith. Rabbi Elazar ben Rabbi Zadok said, "There was a small passage between the graded ascent and the altar ; once every six or seven years novices went down there and collected thence the coagulated wine, which was like cakes of fig, and brought it up and burnt it in a consecrated way, as it is said, "In the holy place thou shalt pour out a drink-offering of strong drink unto the Lord." [Numbers 28] So as they poured it out in a consecrated way, in the same way they burnt it.