Sotah 41A

״ויקרא בו לפני הרחוב אשר לפני שער המים״! אמר רב חסדא: בעזרת נשים.

“And he read there before the broad place that was before the Gate of the Water” (Nehemiah 8:3). According to this opinion, the High Priest would read from the Torah in the Temple courtyard. Rav Ḥisda says in response: The baraita also means that the reading takes place in the women’s courtyard.

וקורא ״אחרי מות״ ו״אך בעשור״. ורמינהי: מדלגין בנביא ואין מדלגין בתורה!

§ It is taught in the Mishnah that the High Priest receives the Torah scroll and reads the Torah portion beginning with the verse: “After the death” (Leviticus 16:1), and the portion beginning with the verse: “But on the tenth” (Leviticus 23:26). Since these two portions are not adjacent to each other, the High Priest skips the section between the two portions. The Talmud raises a contradiction from a Mishnah (Megilla 24a): One may skip sections when reading the haftara in the Prophets, but one may not skip sections when reading in the Torah.

אמר אביי, לא קשיא: כאן ⁠— בכדי שיפסוק התורגמן, כאן ⁠— בכדי שלא יפסוק התורגמן.

Abaye said: This is not difficult. There, in the Mishnah in tractate Megilla that teaches that one may not skip, the intention is that one should not skip if the sections are so far apart from one another that the delay caused by doing so will be of such length that the translator who recites the Aramaic translation will conclude his translation before the next section is reached. However, in the case of the Mishnah here, it is permitted to skip verses because the two passages are in close proximity to one another. The delay caused is of such short length that the translator will still not conclude his translation.