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Then made he ten laversm of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.

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2 Chron. 4:6• ⁶And he made ten lavers, and put five on the right and five on the left, to wash in them: they rinsed in them what they prepared for the burnt-offering; and the sea was for the priests to wash in. (2 Chron. 4:6)

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Ex. 30:17‑21,28• ¹⁷And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
¹⁸Thou shalt also make a laver of copper, and its stand of copper, for washing; and thou shalt put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shalt put water in it.
¹⁹And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet out of it.
²⁰When they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they may not die; or when they come near to the altar to serve, to burn an offering by fire to Jehovah.
²¹And they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they may not die; and it shall be an everlasting statute for them, for him and for his seed throughout their generations.
²⁸and the altar of burnt-offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand. (Ex. 30:17‑21,28)

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Ex. 38:8• ⁸And he made the laver of copper, and its stand of copper, of the mirrors of the crowds of women who crowded before the entrance of the tent of meeting. (Ex. 38:8)

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Ex. 40:11‑12• ¹¹And thou shalt anoint the laver and its stand, and hallow it.
¹²And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons near, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and bathe them with water. (Ex. 40:11‑12)

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2 Chron. 4:6‑22• ⁶And he made ten lavers, and put five on the right and five on the left, to wash in them: they rinsed in them what they prepared for the burnt-offering; and the sea was for the priests to wash in.
⁷And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to the ordinance respecting them, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand and five on the left.
⁸And he made ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right hand and five on the left. And he made a hundred golden bowls.
⁹And he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors thereof with bronze.
¹⁰And he set the sea on the right side eastward, over against the south.
¹¹And Huram made the pots and the shovels and the bowls. So Huram ended doing the work that he made for king Solomon in the house of God:
¹²two pillars, and the globes and the capitals on the top of the pillars, two; and the two networks, to cover the two globes of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars;
¹³and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two globes of the capitals which were upon the pillars.
¹⁴And he made the bases, and he made the lavers on the bases;
¹⁵one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
¹⁶And the pots, and the shovels, and the forks, and all their instruments did Huram Abiv make king Solomon for the house of Jehovah, of bright brass.
¹⁷In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay-ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
¹⁸And Solomon made all these vessels in great number; for the weight of the brass was not ascertained.
¹⁹And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God: the golden altar; and the tables whereon was the shewbread;
²⁰and the candlesticks with their lamps to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;
²¹and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold (it was perfect gold);
²²and the knives, and the bowls, and the cups, and the censers, of pure gold; and the entrance of the house, the inner folding-doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house, of the temple, of gold. (2 Chron. 4:6‑22)

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Zech. 13:1• ¹In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. (Zech. 13:1)

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Heb. 9:10• ¹⁰consisting only of meats and drinks and divers washings, ordinances of flesh, imposed until the time of setting things right. (Heb. 9:10)

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Heb. 10:22• ²²let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water. (Heb. 10:22)

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1 John 1:7• ⁷But if we walk in the light as *he* is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)

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Rev. 7:14• ¹⁴And I said to him, My lord, *thou* knowest. And he said to me, These are they who come out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Rev. 7:14)

• The brazen sea served to cleanse the priests; the ten lavers, five on the right of the court and five on the left, served to “wash... such things as they offered for the burnt offering” (2 Chron. 4:6). In Leviticus 1:9 we see that the priest washed the inwards and the legs of the victim with water. This type must correspond to future reality—to the offering of Christ to God in perfect purity. He who offered Himself as an odor of a sweet smell was holiness itself and had no need to be washed, but the type must be washed in order to show the perfection of the offering of Christ. (“Hiram and the Court: 1 Kings 7:13-51” by H.L. Rossier)

• Ten lavers were needed to wash the victims; these were, we do not doubt, symbolic of the absolute purity of Christ. (“Hiram and the Court: 1 Kings 7:13-51” by H.L. Rossier)

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And he made ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths; every laver was four cubits; upon every one of the ten bases one laver.