OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 30:18

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“You shall also make a basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

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Verse 18. Its foot also of brass, made of mirrors which the women gave. Calmet. 38:8. It was double; one vessel being shallower, to wash the feet and so forth and the other containing a quantity of water, which was let out by pipes. The pagans had lavers also; and our holy-water vessels should remind us of that purity and holiness which became the house of God. Bible.

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