Exodus 38:8
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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.
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Here is an account, I. Of the making of the brazen altar (Exo 38:1-7), and the laver (Exo 38:8). II. The preparing of the hangings for the enclosing of the court in which the tabernacle was to stand (Exo 38:9-20). III. A summary of the gold, silver, and brass, that was contributed to, and used in, the preparing of the tabernacle (Exo 38:21, etc.).
Open source ↗38:8 While the plans for the washbasin (30:17-21) were included in the instructions to the priests (29:38–30:38), here its construction is reported in logical sequence. • This bronze, which could be polished to a mirror-like finish, was probably of especially high quality, as was fitting for use in God’s Tabernacle.
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and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
And place the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.
“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.”
I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.
He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.