Firstly, the scholarship on the matter of the temple quite obviously is not limited to what the Bible says (I assume that's what you mean by "verses"). Historians and others have written extensively on the nature of priestly purification at the tabernacle and temple.
As to the Bible, for one, we can read in Exodus 30:
17 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
18 Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.
19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:
20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the Lord:
21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
We read in Exodus 40:
30 And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal.
31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat:
32 When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the Lord commanded Moses.
We read in 2 Chronicles 4:6
He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
Do you have any verses that show that it was used for baptism, whether for the living or the dead?
Apparently Joseph F. Smith said, in Answers to Gospel Questions, "this font, or brazen sea, was not used for baptisms for the dead, for there were no baptisms for the dead until after the resurrection of the Lord". I see this quoted in a book critical of Mormonism, though I don't have either myself (this is from a Google Books preview).
I was curious to see what evidence you had on the topic. I had no plan to argue about it. I don't find that funny. But if you don't want to provide it, that's okay with me.
Toodles.
Oh I'm sure you don't find it funny. What I find funny is that you are not interested in providing evidences, as you stated above, yet you ask me for evidences.
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