day), the section of the unclean (who would be required to keep the Passover in the second month) in , the section of the sending of the unclean out of the camp (which also had to take place before the Tabernacle was set up) in , the section of (dealing with Yom Kippur, which states was transmitted immediately after the death of Aaron's two sons), the section dealing with the drinking of wine by priests in , the section of the lights of the Menorah in , and the section of the red heifer in (which came into force as soon as the Tabernacle was set up). A Midrash taught that God instructed in , "the seven lamps shall give light toward the center of the Menorah," so that the evil inclination should not mislead one to believe that God needed the light. Rabbi Simeon reported that when he went to Rome, he saw the Menorah there, and all the lamps faced the middle lamp. Rava also read to say that the seven lamps gave light toward the center of the Menorah, and deduced from this that the middle in a series may be favored. Rava taught that if the first Torah reader on a weekday reads four verses of the obligatory ten verses read on weekdays, that reader is to be commended; if the second (middle) reader reads four verses, that reader is to be commended; and if the third (last) reader reads four verses, that reader is to be commended. In support of the proposition that one should commend the middle reader if that reader reads four verses, Rava taught that says that the lights were made to face the western lamp — the middle lamp of the Menorah — and the western lamp faced the Divine Presence; and Rabbi Joḥanan taught that this shows that the middle one is specially prized. The Sifre taught that reports, "And Aaron did so," to tell of Aaron's virtue, for he did exactly what Moses told him to do. The Mishnah taught that there was a stone in front of the Menorah with three steps on which the priest stood to trim the lights. The priest left the oil jar on the second step. Reading to say, "he set up the lamps," the Sifre taught that Aaron made these steps. A Baraita interpreted the expression "beaten work of gold" in to