¹⁴ And David, clothed in a linen ephod, was dancing before the Lord with all his strength.

¹⁸ But Samuel did the work of the Lord's house, while he was a child, dressed in a linen ephod.

⁴ Give him praise with instruments of brass and in the dance: give him praise with horns and corded instruments.

²⁰ And Miriam, the woman prophet, the sister of Aaron, took an instrument of music in her hand; and all the women went after her with music and dances.

³ Let them give praise to his name in the dance: let them make melody to him with instruments of brass and corded instruments of music.

¹¹ By you my sorrow is turned into dancing; you have taken away my clothing of grief, and given me robes of joy;

²⁸ Did I take him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest and to go up to my altar to make the smoke of the offerings go up and to take up the ephod? Did I give to your father's family all the offerings made by fire by the children of Israel?

³⁴ Then Jephthah came back to his house in Mizpah, and his daughter came out, meeting him on his way with music and with dances; she was his only child; he had no other sons or daughters.

²³ Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;

²⁵ Now the older son was in the field: and when he came near the house, the sounds of music and dancing came to his ears.

¹⁰ Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

²⁷ And David was clothed with a robe of fair linen, as were all the Levites who took up the ark, and those who made melody, and Chenaniah the master of those who made melody; and David had on a linen ephod;

¹⁸ Then the king said to Doeg, You are to put the priests to death. And Doeg the Edomite, turning on the priests and attacking them, put to death that day eighty-five men who took up the ephod.

²¹ And watching; and if the daughters of Shiloh come out to take part in the dances, then come from the vine-gardens and take a wife for every one of you from among the daughters of Shiloh, and go back to the land of Benjamin.

⁵ And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

⁶ And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.