Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 30:19
For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:
To signify their natural impurity and unworthiness, either to handle holy things, or to come into the holy place, and their need of washing with the blood and Spirit of Christ, which was typified by this washing.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat. Not in it, but at it; the laver had mouths or spouts, as Ben Melech says, from whence the water flowed when the priests washed their hands and feet at it; and so Bartenora says z they did not wash out of the laver, but from water flowing out of it; it is said “out of it”, not in it; it seems at first there were but two of these spouts; for it is said a Ben Katin made twelve spouts or cocks, which had but two before; so that twelve priests could wash their hands and feet at one time, and which they could do at once, presently, by putting the right hand on the top of the right foot, and the left hand upon the left foot, as both Jarchi and Ben Melech relate: and now the hands being the instruments of action, and the feet of walking, this shows that the actions of good men, the priests of the Lord, and their walk and conversation, are not without sin, and that these need washing in the laver of Christ’s blood, to which there must be daily application, see Zec 13:1. Our Lord seems to have reference to this ceremony, Joh 13:10 the Egyptian priests washed twice every day in cold water, and twice every night b.
z In Misn. Zebachim, c. 2. sect. 1. a Misn. Yoma. c. 3. sect. 10. b Herodot. Euterpe, sive, l. 2. c. 37.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(19) Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet.Washing the hands symbolised purity in act; washing the feet, holiness in all their walk and conversation.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
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“Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat.” Exo 30:19 .
But we thought Aaron and his sons were ministers? So they were; but ministers are not exempt from the great law of regeneration and purification. The man must never be lost in the officer. Aaron was to be treated as a sinner, and not as a priest only. Aaron could assume no personal superiority over his fellow rebels. He had a function to discharge, an official policy to pursue; but these did not take away his sin: his feet had also gone in the evil way, and his feet must be washed in the appointed laver. This is a law of universal application to ministers teachers, office-bearers, and leaders of men. All mere snobbery, and self-assertion, and self-idolatry must be rebuked and condemned, and utterly driven out of the Church. No man has any right in the Church except as he has washed in the true laver and become qualified by purity to stand in the inner place. Wealth, considered merely as such, must be driven away; all social claim, prestige, influence, and the like, must be put down; they have no right to be in the Church, unless they too have been washed in the appointed laver. Then they may come in, and wealth will be cleansed of its idolatry, and social influence will be humbled into heavenly modesty, and the great man shall be as the small man, and all shall be equal in the presence of God.
Fuente: The People’s Bible by Joseph Parker
Exo 30:19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:
Ver. 19. For Aaron and his sons. ] Here they were to wash before they prayed for the people. Heb 10:22 We must first make our own peace with God before we take upon us to intercede for others. So did David. Psa 25:22 ; Psa 51:18-19 So we are advised to do, Lam 3:39-40 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 40:31, Exo 40:32, Psa 26:6, Isa 52:11, Joh 13:8-10, 1Co 6:9-11, Tit 3:5, Heb 9:10, Heb 10:22, Rev 1:5, Rev 1:6
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
30:19 For Aaron and his sons shall {k} wash their hands and their feet thereat:
(k) Signifying that he that comes to God must be washed from all sin and corruption.