The brazen laver was like a wash basin at which the priests used to wash before entering the tabernacle or presenting a sacrifice. It can be found in Exodus 30:18-21:
“Make a bronze basin, with its bronze stand, for washing. Place it between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it. Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet with water from it. Whenever they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water so that they will not die. Also when they approach the altar to minister by presenting a food offering to the Lord, they shall wash their hands and feet so that they will not die. This is to be a lasting ordinance for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to come.”
And in Exodus 38:8:
“They made the bronze basin and its bronze stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.”
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