Genesis 31:27
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27 Why did you flee secretly and deceive me and not tell me? I would have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre.(A)
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Exodus 15:20
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The Song of Miriam
20 Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing.(A)
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Proverbs 26:23-26
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23 Like the glaze[a] covering an earthen vessel
are smooth[b] lips with an evil heart.
24 An enemy dissembles in speaking
while harboring deceit within;(A)
25 when an enemy speaks graciously, do not believe it,
for there are seven abominations concealed within;(B)
26 though hatred is covered with guile,
the enemy’s wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.(C)
Job 21:11-14
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11 They send out their little ones like a flock,
and their children dance around.
12 They sing to the tambourine and the lyre
and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.(A)
13 They spend their days in prosperity,
and in peace they go down to Sheol.(B)
14 They say to God, ‘Leave us alone!
We do not desire to know your ways.(C)
Judges 6:27
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27 So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had told him, but because he was too afraid of his family and the townspeople to do it by day, he did it by night.
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Genesis 31:31
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31 Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.
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Genesis 31:20-21
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20 And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee. 21 So he fled with all that he had; starting out he crossed the Euphrates[a] and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.(A)
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- 31.21 Heb the river
Genesis 31:3-5
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3 Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your ancestors and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”(A) 4 So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock was 5 and said to them, “I see that your father does not regard me as favorably as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me.(B)
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Genesis 24:59-60
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59 So they sent away their sister Rebekah and her nurse along with Abraham’s servant and his men.(A) 60 And they blessed Rebekah and said to her,
“May you, our sister, become
thousands of myriads;
may your offspring gain possession
of the gates of their foes.”(B)
Genesis 4:21
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21 His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the ancestor of all those who play the lyre and pipe.
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