Exodus 30:18
“You must also make a large bronze basin with a bronze stand, a basin for washing. You must put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you must put water in it.
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17Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
19Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and their feet with the water in it.
Cross References
Exodus 31:9the altar for burnt offerings with all its equipment, and the large basin with its base.
Exodus 40:7You must put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and you must put water in it.
Leviticus 8:11He sprinkled the oil on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the washbasin and its base, to set them apart to Yahweh.
1 Kings 7:38Huram made ten basins of bronze. One basin could hold forty baths of water. Each basin was four cubits across and there was one basin on each of ten stands.
2 Chronicles 4:6He made also ten basins for washing things; he put five on the south side, and five on the north; items used in performing the burnt offering were to be washed in them. The large basin known as “The Sea” was used by the priests for them to wash.
Zechariah 13:1“On that day a spring will be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for their sin and impurity.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 30:18-22
17 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 18 Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. 19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: 20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the Lord : 21 So… Read the whole commentary →