Exodus 40:31-33

40:31 Moses and Aaron and his sons would wash their hands and their feet from it. 40:32 Whenever they entered ¹  the tent of meeting, and whenever they approached ²  the altar, they would wash, ³  just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

40:33 And he set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar, and put the curtain at the gate of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.

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¹ 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.

² tn This is another infinitive construct in a temporal clause.

³ tn In this explanatory verse the verb is a customary imperfect.