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Bible Verses About Laver

25 verses · 8 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. Thou shalt make also a brazen laver with its foot to wash in: and thou shalt set it between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar. And water being put into it:

  2. Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet in it:

  3. When they are going into the tabernacle of the testimony, and when they are to come to the altar, to offer on it incense to the Lord,

  4. When they went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and went to the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

  5. He set up also the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, drawing the hanging in the entry thereof. After all things were perfected,

  6. The cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory of the Lord filled it.

  7. He made also a molten sea, of ten cubits, from brim to brim, round all about; the height of it was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.

  8. And a graven work, under the brim of it, compassed it for ten cubits going about the sea: there were two rows cast of chamfered sculptures.

  9. And it stood upon twelve oxen, of which three looked towards the north, and three towards the west, and three towards the south, and three towards the east: and the sea was above upon them, and their hinder parts were all hid within.

  10. And the laver was a hand breadth thick: and the brim thereof was like the brim of a cup, or the leaf of a crisped lily: it contained two thousand bates.

  11. He made also ten lavers of brass: one laver contained four bates, and was of four cubits: and upon every base, in all ten, he put as many lavers.

  12. And he set the ten bases, five on the right side of the temple, and five on the left: and the sea he put on the right side of the temple, over against the east southward.

  13. Also a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass: it was five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.

  14. And under it there was the likeness of oxen, and certain engravings on the outside of ten cubits compassed the belly of the sea, as it were with two rows.

  15. And the oxen were cast: and the sea itself was set upon the twelve oxen, three of which looked toward the north, and other three toward the west: and other three toward the south, and the other three that remained toward the east, and the sea stood upon them: and the hinder parts of the oxen were inward under the sea.

  16. Now the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it was like the brim of a cup, or of a crisped lily: and it held three thousand measures.

  17. He made also ten lavers: and he set five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them all such things as they were to offer for holocausts: but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

  18. And he made ten golden candlesticks, according to the form which they were commanded to be made by: and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

  19. Moreover also ten tables: and he set them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. Also a hundred bowls of gold.

  20. He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall, and doors in the hall, which he covered with brass.

  21. And he set the sea on the right side over against the east toward the south.

  22. And Hiram made caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls: and finished all the king's work the house of God:

  23. That is to say, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters, and the network, to cover the chapiters over the pommels.

  24. And four hundred pomegranates, and two wreaths of network, so that two rows of pomegranates were joined to each wreath, to cover the pommels, and the chapiters of the pillars.

  25. He made also bases, and lavers, which he set upon the bases: