Question: Is the double handful like a Kli Shares to be Mekadesh [the Ketores inside]?

Question: May someone else [take a double handful] and put it in [the Kohen Gadol's] hands?

Question: May one make a [Kli with a fixed] measure for his double handful?

Question: Do we gauge based on everyone's double handful (to determine the size of the Kaf), or only based on [this Kohen Gadol's]?

Question (R. Yehoshua ben Levi): If he took the double handful and died, may another (his replacement) enter with [the first's] double handful?

Answer: (All these questions depend on the first one.) If you will say that they made the double handful like a Kli Shares to be Mekadesh, this teaches that if he took the double handful and died, another may not enter with [the first's] double handful, another may not take a double handful and put it in [the Kohen Gadol's] hands, we may make a measure for his double handful, and we do not gauge based on everyone's double handful;

If you will say that they did not make the double handful like a Kli Shares to be Mekadesh, this teaches that if he took the double handful and died, another may enter with [the first's] double handful, another may take a double handful and put it in [the Kohen Gadol's] hands, we may not make a measure for his double handful, and we gauge based on everyone's double handful;

A big [Kohen Gadol] is according to his great size, even like Ben Kimchis, that his hand held about four Kavim, and a small one according to his small size, even like Ben Gamla, that his hand held only two k'Zeisim.