Exodus 38:8 They made the bronze basin and its bronze stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
They made the bronze basin and its bronze stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

English Standard Version
He made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered in the entrance of the tent of meeting.

New American Standard Bible
Moreover, he made the laver of bronze with its base of bronze, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

King James Bible
And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He made the bronze basin and its stand from the bronze mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

International Standard Version
He made the bronze basin and its bronze base from mirrors contributed by the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

American Standard Version
And he made the laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, of the mirrors of the ministering women that ministered at the door of the tent of meeting.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also the laver of brass, with the foot thereof, of the mirrors of the women that watch at the door of the tabernacle.

Darby Bible Translation
And he made the laver of copper, and its stand of copper, of the mirrors of the crowds of women who crowded before the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Young's Literal Translation
And he maketh the laver of brass, and its base of brass, with the looking-glasses of the women assembling, who have assembled at the opening of the tent of meeting.

Cross References

Exodus 30:18
You shall also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash with: and you shall put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and you shall put water therein.

Exodus 31:9
And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot,

Exodus 38:7
And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it with; he made the altar hollow with boards.

1 Samuel 2:22
Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did to all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

38:1-8 In all ages of the church there have been some persons more devoted to God, more constant in their attendance upon his ordinances, and more willing to part even with lawful things, for his sake, than others. Some women, devoted to God and zealous for the tabernacle worship, expressed zeal by parting with their mirrors, which were polished plates of brass. Before the invention of looking-glasses, these served the same purposes.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

8. laver of brass … of the looking glasses of the women—The word mirrors should have been used, as those implements, usually round, inserted into a handle of wood, stone, or metal, were made of brass, silver, or bronze, highly polished [Wilkinson]. It was customary for the Egyptian women to carry mirrors with them to the temples; and whether by taking the looking glasses of the Hebrew women Moses designed to put it out of their power to follow a similar practice at the tabernacle, or whether the supply of brass from other sources in the camp was exhausted, it is interesting to learn how zealously and to a vast extent they surrendered those valued accompaniments of the female toilet.

of the women assembling … at the door—not priestesses but women of pious character and influence, who frequented the courts of the sacred building (Lu 2:37), and whose parting with their mirrors, like the cutting the hair of the Nazarites, was their renouncing the world for a season [Hengstenberg].