Leviticus 8:10-11 - Exposition

The anointing is still more specifically the means of consecration than the investing or the washing. (For the anointing oil , which is here referred to as a thing well known, see Exodus 30:22-25 , where its component parts are designated.) The consecration of things as well as of persons is sanctioned by the action of Moses, who anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them . They were thus set apart for holy purposes. By all that was therein would be meant the ark, the vail, the altar of incense, the candlesticks, the table of show-bread. After the tabernacle and its furniture had been anointed, the altar—that is, the brazen altar— and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot , were sprinkled; not once only, as the things within the tabernacle, but seven times , to show that it was specially holy, although situated only in the court. The laver, for the priests' use, was between the door of the tabernacle and the brazen altar of burnt offering. Its foot, or base, is described in Exodus 38:8 , as made, according to the translation of the Authorized Version, "of brass, of the looking-glasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle.''