Bible Strands
Exodus 30:18
“You are to make a bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. Set it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD speaks this command to Moses while giving detailed instructions for tabernacle construction.
The words — כּיּוֹר (kiyor) identifies the basin itself, and נְחֹשֶׁת (nechoshet) specifies the bronze material used for both the vessel and its stand.
The thread — Exodus 40:7 and 40:30 record the basin’s placement between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and its filling with water. Exodus 38:8 records that the basin’s stand was made from the bronze mirrors of the women serving at the Tent entrance.
Why it lands — The text commands the preparation and positioning of a washing vessel before the altar, establishing a physical requirement for ritual purification.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Exodus 40:7 And place the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
- Exodus 38:8 Next he made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
- Exodus 40:30 He placed the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing;
- 1 Kings 7:23 He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
- 1 Kings 7:38 He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
- 2 Chronicles 4:14 the stands; the basins on the stands;
- Leviticus 8:11 He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointing the altar and all its utensils, and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them.
- 2 Chronicles 4:6 He also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the priests used the Sea for washing.
- Zechariah 13:1 “On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.