The laver was a utensil used by the priests to wash their hands and feet in the tabernacle.
The laver was made from the mirrors (bronze: brass) of the women who served in the Tent of Meeting.
The laver was placed between the entrance of the sanctuary and the altar of burnt offering.
Before entering the sanctuary, the priests had to wash their hands and feet with water at the laver to purify themselves.
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Exodus 30:18
You shall make a laver of brass and its base of brass for washing, and put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
Exodus 30:19
Aaron and his sons washed their hands and feet in the mound.
Exodus 30:20
When they enter the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, so that they may not die; and when they come near the altar to perform their duties and burn a fire offering before the LORD, they shall do the same.
Exodus 38:8
He made the laver of brass and its base of brass, a mirror for the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
1 Kings 7:30
Each of its bases had four bronze wheels and a brass shaft, and under its four feet there were something like shoulders, and the like shoulders were cast at the base of the laver, and garlands were beside each one.
1 Kings 7:38
He also made ten laver of brass, each laver containing forty baths, and each laver was four cubits in diameter, and there was one laver on each of the ten sockets.
1 Kings 7:43
And the ten pedestals, and the ten laver upon the pedestals,
2 Chronicles 4:6
He also made ten laver, putting five on the right hand side and five on the left hand side for washing, and the articles belonging to the burnt offering were to be washed there. The sea was for the washing of the priests.