The Rooms for Sacrificing Animals

^38-39 Inside the entrance room of the north gate, I saw four tables, two on each side of the room, where the animals to be sacrificed were killed. Just outside^[a] this room was a small building used for washing the animals before they were offered as sacrifices to please the Lord^[b] or sacrifices for sin^[c] or sacrifices to make things right.^{[d] 40} Four more tables were in the outer courtyard, two on each side of the steps leading into the entrance room. ⁴¹ So there was a total of eight tables, four inside and four outside, where the animals were killed,