The Rooms for Preparing Sacrifices

³⁸ A room with a doorway was by the portico in each of the inner gateways, where the burnt offerings^(A) were washed. ³⁹ In the portico of the gateway were two tables on each side, on which the burnt offerings,^(B) sin offerings^[a](C) and guilt offerings^(D) were slaughtered.^{(E) 40} By the outside wall of the portico of the gateway, near the steps at the entrance of the north gateway were two tables, and on the other side of the steps were two tables.