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.

⁶ Now on their way, when David came back after the destruction of the Philistine, the women came out of all the towns of Israel, with songs and dances, meeting David with melody and joy and instruments of music.

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.

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

⁵⁹ Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom he had in Egypt: by Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister Miriam.

⁴ And his sister took her place at a distance to see what would become of him.

⁴ Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time.

²⁵ The makers of songs go before, the players of music come after, among the young girls playing on brass instruments.

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.

⁴ For I took you up out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

³⁶ And there was one, Anna, a woman prophet, the daughter of Phanuel, of the family of Asher (she was very old, and after seven years of married life

² Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments.

¹⁴ So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan and Asaiah, went to Huldah the woman prophet, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the robes, (now she was living in Jerusalem, in the second part of the town;) and they had talk with her.

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.

¹ In the first month all the children of Israel came into the waste land of Zin, and put up their tents in Kadesh; there death came to Miriam, and they put her body to rest in the earth.

⁵ After that you will come to Gibeah, the hill of God, where an armed force of the Philistines is stationed: and when you come to the town, you will see a band of prophets coming down from the high place with instruments of music before them; and they will be acting like prophets:

⁵ And David and all the men of Israel made melody before the Lord with all their power, with songs and with corded instruments and instruments of brass.

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

¹⁶ And when the ark of the Lord came into the town of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looking out of the window, saw King David dancing and jumping before the Lord; and to her mind he seemed foolish.

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

¹¹ The Lord gives the word; great is the number of the women who make it public.

⁹ And he had four daughters, virgins, who were prophets.

⁵ But every woman who does so with her head unveiled, puts shame on her head: for it is the same as if her hair was cut off.

³⁴ Let women keep quiet in the churches: for it is not right for them to be talking; but let them be under control, as it says in the law.

¹ Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife.