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

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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 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 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 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

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

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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

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

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Begin the music, strike the timbrel,(A)
    play the melodious harp(B) and lyre.(C)

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11 The Lord announces the word,
    and the women who proclaim it are a mighty throng:(A)

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11 You turned my wailing(A) into dancing;(B)
    you removed my sackcloth(C) and clothed me with joy,(D)

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14 Wearing a linen ephod,(A) David was dancing(B) before the Lord with all his might,

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“After that you will go to Gibeah(A) of God, where there is a Philistine outpost.(B) As you approach the town, you will meet a procession of prophets(C) coming down from the high place(D) with lyres, timbrels,(E) pipes(F) and harps(G) being played before them, and they will be prophesying.(H)

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21 and watch. When the young women of Shiloh come out to join in the dancing,(A) rush from the vineyards and each of you seize one of them to be your wife. Then return to the land of Benjamin.

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Water From the Rock

20 In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin,(A) and they stayed at Kadesh.(B) There Miriam(C) died and was buried.

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But every woman who prays or prophesies(A) with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is the same as having her head shaved.(B)

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16 As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David,(A) Michal(B) daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.

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David and all Israel were celebrating(A) with all their might before the Lord, with castanets,[a] harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 6:5 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint (see also 1 Chron. 13:8) songs

Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses

12 Miriam(A) and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife,(B) for he had married a Cushite.

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34 Women[a] should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak,(A) but must be in submission,(B) as the law(C) says.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 14:34 Or peace. As in all the congregations of the Lord’s people, 34 women

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