Basons, to receive the blood of the sacrifices, which they were to sprinkle. Flesh-hooks, wherewith they took flesh out of the pot in which it was seethed, as 1 Samuel 2:14. But this seems not proper here, because the flesh was never boiled upon the altar, but in other places appointed for that use. And the Hebrew word is general, and may signify either tongs or fire-forks. Firepans, in which they carried live coals from this altar to that of incense, as occasion required.

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