Basin for Washing

¹⁷ Then the Lord said to Moses, ¹⁸ “Make a bronze basin,^(A) with its bronze stand, for washing. Place it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it. ¹⁹ Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet^(B) with water^(C) from it. ²⁰ Whenever they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water so that they will not die.^(D) Also, when they approach the altar to minister by presenting a food offering to the Lord, ²¹ they shall wash their hands and feet so that they will not die. This is to be a lasting ordinance^(E) for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to come.”^(F)

³⁸ He then made ten bronze basins,^(A) each holding forty baths^[a] and measuring four cubits across, one basin to go on each of the ten stands.

⁴⁰ He also made the pots^[a] and shovels and sprinkling bowls.^(A)

So Huram finished all the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of the Lord: