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20 Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine and led all the women as they played their tambourines and danced.

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Praise him with the tambourine and dancing;
    praise him with strings and flutes!

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praise him with timbrel and dancing,(A)
    praise him with the strings(B) and pipe,(C)

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When the victorious Israelite army was returning home after David had killed the Philistine, women from all the towns of Israel came out to meet King Saul. They sang and danced for joy with tambourines and cymbals.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 18:6 The type of instrument represented by the word cymbals is uncertain.

When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing,(A) with joyful songs and with timbrels(B) and lyres.

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25 Singers are in front, musicians behind;
    between them are young women playing tambourines.

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25 In front are the singers,(A) after them the musicians;(B)
    with them are the young women playing the timbrels.(C)

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34 When Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, his daughter came out to meet him, playing on a tambourine and dancing for joy. She was his one and only child; he had no other sons or daughters.

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34 When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing(A) to the sound of timbrels!(B) She was an only child.(C) Except for her he had neither son nor daughter.

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59 and Amram’s wife was named Jochebed. She also was a descendant of Levi, born among the Levites in the land of Egypt. Amram and Jochebed became the parents of Aaron, Moses, and their sister, Miriam.

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59 the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed,(A) a descendant of Levi, who was born to the Levites[a] in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses(B) and their sister(C) Miriam.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 26:59 Or Jochebed, a daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi

For I brought you out of Egypt
    and redeemed you from slavery.
    I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to help you.

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I brought you up out of Egypt(A)
    and redeemed you from the land of slavery.(B)
I sent Moses(C) to lead you,
    also Aaron(D) and Miriam.(E)

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Praise his name with dancing,
    accompanied by tambourine and harp.

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Let them praise his name with dancing(A)
    and make music to him with timbrel and harp.(B)

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Deborah, the wife of Lappidoth, was a prophet who was judging Israel at that time.

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Now Deborah,(A) a prophet,(B) the wife of Lappidoth, was leading[a] Israel at that time.

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  1. Judges 4:4 Traditionally judging

The Prophecy of Anna

36 Anna, a prophet, was also there in the Temple. She was the daughter of Phanuel from the tribe of Asher, and she was very old. Her husband died when they had been married only seven years.

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36 There was also a prophet,(A) Anna, the daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage,

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14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to the New Quarter[a] of Jerusalem to consult with the prophet Huldah. She was the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, the keeper of the Temple wardrobe.

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  1. 22:14 Or the Second Quarter, a newer section of Jerusalem. Hebrew reads the Mishneh.

14 Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Akbor, Shaphan and Asaiah went to speak to the prophet(A) Huldah, who was the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the New Quarter.

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The baby’s sister then stood at a distance, watching to see what would happen to him.

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His sister(A) stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

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He had four unmarried daughters who had the gift of prophecy.

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He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.(A)

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