Women MINISTERED in the entrance of the tent of meeting

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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:

 

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