Exodus 40:30-32

Context

40:30 Then he put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it¹ for washing. 40:31 Moses and Aaron and his sons would wash their hands and their feet from it. 40:32 Whenever they entered² the tent of meeting, and whenever they approached³ the altar, they would wash,⁴ just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

[40:30] ¹tn Heb “there.”

[40:32] ²tn The construction is the infinitive construct with the temporal preposition and the suffixed subjective genitive. This temporal clause indicates that the verb in the preceding verse was frequentative.

[40:32] ³tn This is another infinitive construct in a temporal clause.

[40:32] ⁴tn In this explanatory verse the verb is a customary imperfect.