By Jonathan David Lawrence
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You shall put it in between the tent of meeting and the altar and you shall put water in it; with the water Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet (Mhylgr-t)w Mhydy-t) wcxrw). When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to make an offering by fire to the LORD, they shall wash with water, so that they may not die. They shall wash their hands and feet, so that they may not die: it shall be a perpetual of exclusion, washing, passage of time, and sacrifice appear in different combinations and sequences.
Similarly, Levine focuses on the Priestly text, arguing that it is all preexilic, also overlooking later complications in the use of washing, which will be discussed below (Levine, Presence of the Lord, 34, n. 85). 4 For example, Benjamin Wright focuses only on actual bathing, thus finding no precedent for the use of miqva’ot in the Hebrew Bible, while overlooking other uses of washing terminology which may help illuminate the development and usage of miqva’ot (Wright, “Jewish Ritual Baths,” 190–214).
49 Thus to separate ritual from metaphor as if 47 See further discussion of this text in Chapter Three. This is intended as a way to highlight unusual uses of washing so that they do not get absorbed into the larger category and overlooked, not as an attempt to skew the evidence. 49 Even though many scholars use the term “ritual,” there is currently little agreement as to its definition. For instance, David P. Wright refers to definitions of ritual as both prescribed performances for specific times or circumstances and as a form of community bonding (Wright, “Spectrum,” 173, 177, n.