The Priestly Gift
Unless the offering was a bird (olat haof), its corpse was flayed. The skin of the offering was then kept by the priests who were serving their shift as part of the rotation of the priestly divisions.
The Tosefta narrates that, as time evolved, more powerful priests forcibly took possession of the skins from the lesser priests. Subsequently, it was decreed by the Bet Din shel Kohanim (the priestly Bet Din) that the skins should be sold, with the monetary proceeds being given to the Temple in Jerusalem (Tosefta 19).
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