Sukkah 51B

באבוקות של אור שבידיהן, ואומרים לפניהם דברי שירות ותושבחות. והלוים בכנורות ובנבלים ובמצלתים ובחצוצרות ובכלי שיר בלא מספר, על חמש עשרה מעלות היורדות מעזרת ישראל לעזרת נשים, כנגד חמש עשרה (מעלות) שבתהלים, שעליהן לוים עומדין בכלי שיר ואומרים שירה.

with flaming torches that they would juggle in their hands, and they would say before them passages of song and praise to God. And the Levites would play on lyres, harps, cymbals, and trumpets, and countless other musical instruments. The musicians would stand on the 15 stairs that descend from the Israelites’ courtyard to the Women’s Courtyard, corresponding to the 15 Songs of the Ascents in Psalms, i.e., chapters 120–134, and upon which the Levites stand with musical instruments and recite their song.

ועמדו שני כהנים בשער העליון שיורד מעזרת ישראל לעזרת נשים, ושתי חצוצרות בידיהן, קרא הגבר ⁠— תקעו והריעו ותקעו. הגיעו למעלה עשירית ⁠— תקעו והריעו ותקעו. הגיעו לעזרה ⁠— תקעו והריעו ותקעו.

And this was the ceremony of the Water Libation: Two priests stood at the Upper Gate that descends from the Israelites’ courtyard to the Women’s Courtyard, with two trumpets in their hands. When the rooster crowed at dawn, they sounded a tekia, and sounded a terua, and sounded a tekia. When they who would draw the water reached the tenth stair the trumpeters sounded a tekia, and sounded a terua, and sounded a tekia, to indicate that the time to draw water from the Siloam pool had arrived. When they reached the Women’s Courtyard with the basins of water in their hands, the trumpeters sounded a tekia, and sounded a terua, and sounded a tekia.

(הגיעו לקרקע ⁠— תקעו והריעו ותקעו.) היו תוקעין והולכין עד שמגיעין לשער היוצא ממזרח. הגיעו לשער היוצא ממזרח ⁠— הפכו פניהן ממזרח למערב ואמרו: אבותינו שהיו במקום הזה ⁠— ״אחוריהם אל ההיכל ופניהם קדמה ומשתחוים קדמה לשמש״, ואנו ליה עינינו. רבי יהודה אומר, היו שונין ואומרין: אנו ליה, וליה עינינו.

When they reached the ground of the Women’s Courtyard, the trumpeters sounded a tekia, and sounded a terua, and sounded a tekia. They continued sounding the trumpets until they reached the gate through which one exits to the east, from the Women’s Courtyard to the eastern slope of the Temple Mount. When they reached the gate through which one exits to the east, they turned from facing east to facing west, toward the Holy of Holies, and said: Our ancestors who were in this place during the First Temple period who did not conduct themselves appropriately, stood “with their backs toward the Sanctuary of YHWH, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east” (Ezekiel 8:16), and we, our eyes are to God. R' Yehuda says that they would repeat and say: We are to God, and our eyes are to God.