Exodus 40:31-32

See Exodus 30:19-20. Moses is included, because for the time he acted as priest (v.27). The tenses are frequentative, used to wash (twice), just as in Exodus 34:34 f., for instance. As -Aaron and his sons" are not yet installed (see Leviticus 8), there is a prolepsis in the verses, even if (Di.) they are not a mere interpolation, attached unsuitably to v.30, on the basis of Exodus 30:19 f.