Morning. The gates opened at dawn; the Tamid has been offered.
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On an ordinary weekday the Temple ran on the Tamid alone: the lottery before dawn, the lamb at sunrise and again at eight and a half hours, the incense and the blessing, and the psalm of the day on the fifteen steps, Psalm 82 on a Tuesday (Tamid 7:4). Between the two Tamids the altar was open to the offerings of individuals. Late Adar was the season of the half-shekel: from the twenty-fifth the money-changers sat in the Temple (Shekalim 1:3), the dove-sellers and the pens of the "sons of Hanan" filled the outer court, and the flocks came down for Passover. The court examined the lineage of priests in the Chamber of Hewn Stone (Middot 5:4), and the men of the ma'amad stood over the offering for all Israel (Ta'anit 4:2).
Reconstruction follows Mishnah Middot, Josephus and the archaeology of the Herodian platform; details are stylised.