EXODUS 30:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.”
They shall wash their hands and feet so that they will not die. This is to be a lasting ordinance for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to come. The lasting ordinance for the basin washing repeats the death penalty — not once but twice (verses 20 and 21) — communicating the absolute necessity of this preparation. The ordinance that extends to all generations of Aaron's descendants is the ordinance that makes the priests' ministry sustainable: without the washing, the ministry ends with death; with the washing, the ministry continues across generations. The perpetual washing at the perpetual basin maintains the perpetual ministry that Exodus 29:42 establishes.
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