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What the Fathers say

Exodus 30:18

Western Saints

Bede

In the first instance, we can understand this basin (or flanged bowl, as it is called further on) to be the water of baptism, in which all those who enter the doors of the church must bathe in order to be cleansed. It was put between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar of the holocaust, and the priests were commanded to wash themselves in it twice a day (that is, morning and evening) when they were going to the altar of incense to offer to the Lord. …

On the Tabernacle 3.14, AT EXODUS 3:18-20 ↗