Exodus 30:18

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““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,”

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BSBPD

““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 · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, whereat to wash. And thou shalt put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`And thou hast made a laver of brass (and its base of brass), for washing; and thou hast put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and hast put water there;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 30:18 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 31:9the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its stand—
  2. Exodus 38:8Next he made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
  3. Exodus 40:7And place the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
  4. Exodus 40:30He placed the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing;
  5. Leviticus 8:11He 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.
  6. 1 Kings 7:23He 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.
  7. 1 Kings 7:38He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.
  8. 2 Chronicles 4:2He 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.
  9. 2 Chronicles 4:6He 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.
  10. 2 Chronicles 4:14the stands; the basins on the stands;
  11. 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.
  12. Titus 3:5He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
  13. 1 John 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

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