Exodus 38:8
Next he made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
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.
Note lookingglasses: or, brasen glasses
Note assembling: Heb. assembling by troops
He made the basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the laver
- Exodus 30:18–21; Exodus 40:7, 30–32; 1 Kings 7:23–26, 38; Psalm 26:6; Zechariah 13:1; John 13:10; Titus 3:5, 6; Hebrews 9:10; 1 John 3:7; Revelation 1:5
- assembling
- Heb. assembling by troops. It is supposed that these women kept watch during the night. Among the ancients, women were generally employed as door-keepers. See 1 Sa 2:22.
- Proverbs 8:34; Matthew 26:69; Luke 2:37; John 18:16; 1 Timothy 5:5