Exodus 40:7
Context40:7 You are to put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it. 1
Exodus 40:30-32
Context40:30 Then he put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it 2 for washing. 40:31 Moses and Aaron and his sons would wash their hands and their feet from it. 40:32 Whenever they entered 3 the tent of meeting, and whenever they approached 4 the altar, they would wash, 5 just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
[40:32] 3 tn 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] 4 tn This is another infinitive construct in a temporal clause.
[40:32] 5 tn In this explanatory verse the verb is a customary imperfect.