Exodus 40:31

31 (40-28) And he set the laver between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar, filling it with water.

Exodus 40:31 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 40:31

And Moses, and Aaron, and his sons, washed their hands and
their feet thereat.
] This laver was for the priests, and Moses, officiating as a priest, washed in it, with Aaron, and his sons, whom he was now about to consecrate to the priest's office, and invest with it by offering sacrifice for them; Jarchi says this was on the eighth day of the consecration.

Exodus 40:31 In-Context

29 (40-26) And he put also the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony,

30 (40-27) And the altar of holocaust in the entry of the testimony, offering the holocaust, and the sacrifices upon it, as the Lord had commanded.

31 (40-28) And he set the laver between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar, filling it with water.

32 (40-29) And Moses and Aaron, and his sons, washed their hands and feet,

33 (40-30) When they went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and went to the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.