ft your hand;" for once it
happened, that one poured over his feet,(267) and all the people pelted
him to death with their citrons.

10. As they did on the week-days, so they did on the Sabbath; save that on
the Sabbath eve an unconsecrated golden cask was filled from Siloam, and
placed in a chamber. If it were spilt or uncovered, it was refilled from
the laver, as water and wine which had been uncovered were disallowed on
the altar.

Chapter V

1. The musical pipes were (played) for five and (sometimes) six days. That
is to say, the pipes of the water-drawing, which supersedes neither the
Sabbath day nor the feast. The (Sages) said, "he who has not seen the
joy(268) of the water-drawing, has never seen joy in his life."

2. With the departure of the first day of the feast, they went down into
the women's court, and made great preparations.(269) Four golden
candlesticks were there, and four golden basins on their tops, and four
ladders to each candlestick, and four lads from the young priests, and in
their hands were jars of oil containing 120 logs, with which they
replenished each basin.

3. The cast-off breeches and belts of the priests were torn to wicks,
which they lighted. And there was not a court in Jerusalem that was not
lit up by the lights of the water-drawing.

4. Pious and experienced men danced with lighted torches in their hands,
singing hymns and lauds before them. And the Levites accompanied them with
harps, psalteries, cymbals, trumpets, and numberless musical instruments.
On the fifteen steps which went down from the court of Israel into the
women's court, corresponding with the fifteen songs of degrees,(270) stood
the Levites with their musical instruments, and sang. And at the upper
gate, which went down from the court of Israel to the court of the women,
stood two priests with trumpets in their hands. When the cock crew, they
blew a blast, an alarm, and a blast.(271) When they reached the tenth
step, they blew a blast, an alarm, and a blast. And when they got into the
court, they blew a blast, an alarm, and a blast. They went on blowing as
they went, until they reached the gate, that leads out to the east. When
they reached the gate, that leads out to the east, they turned their faces
westward,(272) and said,

"Our fathers, who were in this place,
Turned their backs upon the Temple;
And their faces toward the east,
And worshipped the sun eastward."(273)

R. Judah