And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.
And thou shalt anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it.
and thou hast anointed the laver and its base, and sanctified it.
And thou shalt anoint the laver and its stand, and hallow it.
Exodus — Deliverance, covenant, presence. A slave-people redeemed from Egypt, brought to Sinai, and given a tabernacle so that God might dwell among them.
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Observe, Every thing was sanctified when it was put in its proper place, and not till then, for till then it was not fit for the use to which it was to be sanctified.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its stand—
He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.
