40:12 “You are to bring 2 Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.
1 sn U. Cassuto (Exodus, 480) notes that the items inside the tent did not need to be enumerated since they were already holy, but items in the courtyard needed special attention. People needed to know that items outside the tent were just as holy.
2 tn The verb is “bring near,” or “present,” to Yahweh.