Gen 31:27
Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp? {steal...: Heb. hast stolen me}
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And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
Burning lips and a wicked heart {are like} a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and {so} it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do {it} by day, that he did {it} by night.
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
And his brother's name {was} Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. {unawares...: Heb. the heart of Laban}
And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
And his brother's name {was} Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. {aforetime: or, before them}
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
And {in} every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, {it} shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. {in every...: Heb. every passing of the rod founded} {lay...: Heb. cause to rest upon} {with it: or, against them}
That chant to the sound of the viol, {and} invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; {chant: or, quaver}