LAVER, basin — the bronze washstand set 'between the tent of meeting and the altar' (Exodus 30:18, already on these pages), where priests washed hands and feet before serving, 'that they die not' (30:20). The instruction names only the metal; the execution report names the source (38:8, already on these pages) — melted from mirrors donated by the tzava women, the one object in the whole account whose raw material the text bothers to trace back to a giver. → first discussed at Exod 30:18