The Mishnah reported that the High Priest Ben Katin made 12 spigots for the laver, where there had been two before.
Reading the words of "For over the Mishkan a cloud of God rested by day, and fire would appear in it by night," a Midrash taught that when the Israelites saw the pillar of cloud resting on the Mishkan, they rejoiced, thinking that God had been reconciled with them.