Yerushalmi Shekalim 8:2 ירושלמי שקלים ח׳:ב׳

MISHNAH: If a gobelin²⁸In the Temple, separating the Holiest of Holies from the Temple Hall. Since it is an implement, not a fixed part of the building, it may become impure. became impure by derivative impurity²⁹A rabbinic impurity. By biblical standards, implements may become impure only by contact with original impurity., one immersed it inside and brought it back immediately. But if by original impurity, one immersed it outside and spread it out in the ante-court³⁰The enclosed plaza in front of the entrance to the Temple courtyard. because it requires sundown. If it was new, one spreads it out on the roof of the stoa³¹The double stoa built by Herod as enclosure of the Temple district. so the people could see its workmanship, which was beautiful.
Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel says in the name of Rebbi Simeon, the son of the Executive Officer of the Temple³²Who credibly could inform about details of the Temple some 80 years after its destruction.: The thickness of a gobelin was a hand-width. It was woven on 72 strings³³Of the warp. and each string was composed of 24 threads³⁴Since the gobelin had to be made from blue, purple, and crimson wool, and byssus (Ex. 26:31), and each kind was twined of six threads.. Its length 40 cubits and its width 20 cubits; it was made for 820’000 {denar}. Two were made every year³⁵According to the Tosephta (3:15), one was hung new on the Eve of the Day of Atonement and the other kept in reserve if some impurity should occur on one of the two which were in use. and 300 Cohanim were immersing it³⁶For purification; see end of Halakhah 4..

HALAKHAH: If it had said “thread”, one, “double”, two, “twisted”, three, “entwined”, six³⁷One tries to explain why the expression entwined used in the biblical text for all woven textiles used in the Temple (except the garments of the simple priests) means a multiply twisted string. Since there are other words available for small numbers of threads, entwined must designate heavy strings.. There are four kinds, this makes 24. It was stated 32. If it had said “thread”, one, “double”, two, “twisted”, four, “entwined”, eight. There are four kinds, this makes 32. It was stated 48. If it had said “thread”, one, “double”, two, “plaited” three, “twisted”, six, “entwined”, twelve. There are four kinds, this makes 48.

³⁸Tosephta 3:14; explained differently in Babli Yoma72b.“One verse says embroidered work³⁹Ex. 26:36., and one verse says, intelligent work⁴⁰Ex. 26:31.. Embroidered work, one face⁴¹Greek προσώπον, τό. The scribe originally wrote correctly פרוסיף., intelligent work, two faces.” Rebbi Jehudah and Rebbi Nehemiah, one said embroidered work, a lion on each side, intelligent work, a lion on one side and nothing on the other side. The other one said, embroidered work, a lion on one side and nothing on the other side, intelligent work, a lion on one side and an eagle on the other side.

(It was stated:)⁴³This was written by the scribe but then deleted. S. Liebermann (Tarbiz 5, p. 261) also sees here a sign that the statement was not part of the original Galilean Mishnah. “It was made for 820’000 {denar}.” Rebbi Isaac bar Bisna in the name of Samuel: exaggerated⁴⁴In the Babli, as also in B, always the noun “exaggeration” is used.. There, we have stated⁴⁵Mishnah Tamid2:2, describing the amount of ashes accumulated on the altar at the end of a night. B quotes the entire Mishnah.: “Sometimes there was on it about 300 kor⁴⁶About 114m³, a volume impossible for the surface area of 174.5m² of the fire on the altar. Babli Tamid29a, Ḥulin90b..” Rebbi Yose ben Rebbi Abun in the name of Samuel: exaggerated.