Footnote 1 – The Eucharist—A Sacrificial Formula Preserved

Mishnah, Pesachim 5:5 states: “The priests stand in rows, with basins of silver and gold in their hands. One row had wholly silver ones, another wholly gold ones; they were not mixed up. The basins did not have bases, lest they put them down, and the blood [of the Passover sacrifice] congeal.”