August 4

Succa 5:6

{ Mishmaros were work shifts where 24 groups of cohanim were divided so each would work one week at a time.}

On the first day of Yom Tov they brought 13 bulls, 2 rams and one he-goat. These were brought by 16 different mishmaros [shifts]. [The number of bulls brought dropped by one each day.]

They also brought 14 young sheep by 8 different mishmaros each day. On the first day of Yom Tov six mishmaros each brought 2 and 2 mismaros each brought one [out of the 14 sheep]. On the second day 5 mishmaros each brought 2 and 4 mismaros each brought one, etc.

On the 8th day everything went back to regular.

A cohain who brought a bull one day, the next day didn’t bring any bulls.

Succa 5:7

During the Yomim Tovim all the mishmaros were equal when it came to dividing up the karbanos of yom tov and the eating of the lechem Hapanim.

On Shivuos when there was also the shitei halechem [the two loafs of chametz which were not matzah like the lechem hapanim] they would tell the cohain, ‘Here is chametz, here is matzah’.

On the Yomim tovim the right mishmar for those days would bring the tamid and the nedarim .

When Yom Tov came right after or before Shabbos, all the mishmaros divided the lechem hapanim.