Women MINISTERED in the entrance of the tent of meeting

[tonychanyt]

ESV, Exodus 38:

8 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.

Who were these female ministers?

I don't think they were a regular order of ministers. They were only for that occasion when they offered their precious mirrors. NIV used a less formal word:

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.

KJV was even more causal:

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.

Ellicott explained:

It would seem that these women—the women wont to frequent the “tent of meeting” which Moses had recently set up (Exodus 33:7), and to flock thither in troops—offered voluntarily for the service of God the mirrors, which were among the most highly prized of their possessions. Moses, to mark his approval of their devotion, formed their offerings into the most honourable of all the brazen vessels, and recorded the fact to the women’s credit.

 

[HTacianas]

ESV, Exodus 38:


Who were these female ministers?

I don't think they were a regular order of ministers. They were only for that occasion when they offered their precious mirrors. NIV used a less formal word:


KJV was even more causal:


Ellicott explained:

What have learned? For thousands of years women have carried mirrors around with them to check their faces. Nothing ever changes.