into the cold water, that its temperature should be changed.

6. They brought him to the house of Parva, and it was in the Sanctuary.
They divided with the screen of linen between him and the people. He
sanctified his hands and feet and undressed. R. Meier said, he undressed
and sanctified his hands and feet, he descended and washed, he came up and
he wiped himself. They brought to him white robes, he dressed and
sanctified his hands and feet.

7. "In the morning he was dressed with Pelusian linen worth twelve
minas,(207) and in the evening with Indian linen worth 800 zuz."(208) The
words of R. Meier. But the Sages say, "that in the morning his dress was
worth eighteen minas, and in the evening twelve minas"; all these thirty
minas were from the congregation, and if he wished to add to them he might
add of himself.

8. He came to the side of his bullock, and the bullock was standing
between the porch and the altar; his head to the North, and his face to
the West; and the Priest stood in the East, and his face Westward, and he
placed both hands upon him and made confession, and thus he spake, "I
beseech thee, O Name, I have committed iniquity. I have sinned before
Thee--I, and my house--I beseech thee, O Name, pardon(209) now the
iniquities and the transgressions and the sins which I have perversely
committed, and transgressed, and sinned before thee, I, and my house, as
is written in the law of Moses thy servant, that in this day 'He will
atone for you,' etc. And they answered after him, 'BLESSED BE THE NAME.
THE HONOR OF HIS KINGDOM FOREVER AND EVER.' "

9. He came to the east of the court to the north of the altar. The Sagan
was at his right hand, and the chief of the fathers at his left. And there
were the two goats; and the urn was there, and in it were two lots of
boxwood, and Ben Gamla made them of gold, and they commemorated him as
praiseworthy.

10. The son of Katin made twelve pipes to the laver, where before there
were but two; and also he made a wheel for the laver, lest its water
should be polluted by night. Monobazus(210) the king made all the handles
of the vessels, of gold for the day of atonement. Helena, his mother, made
a chandelier of gold near the door of the Sanctuary, and she also made a
tablet of gold upon which the section of the Sota(211) was written.
Wonders were wrought for the doors of Nicanor,(212) and they were
commemorated as praiseworthy.

11. And these were in ignominy: The family