OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 29:4

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You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.

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Verse 4. Washed. The pagans never approached their mysteries, without divers purifications and washing. Saint Clement strom. 5. Exterior cleanliness was designed to signify the purity of the heart, with which we must appear before God. Calmet.—It is for this reason we take holy-water, when we go into our chapels, and we wash our fingers before and during Mass. Bible.

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