These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Samuel 19
Tanakh 24 verses
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And spoke to his son, and to all his servants, that they should slay ; but Saul’s son delighted much in .
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And told , saying: ‘ my father seeketh to slay thee; now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself in the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself.
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And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will speak with my father of thee; and if I see aught, I will tell thee.’
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- 4 And spoke good of unto his father, and said unto him: ‘Let not the sin against his , against ; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his work hath been very good towards thee;
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for he put his life in his hand, and smote the Philistine, and wrought a great victory for all ; thou sawest it, and didst rejoice; wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent , to slay without a cause?’
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And hearkened unto the voice of ; and swore: ‘As liveth, he shall not be put to death.’
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And called , and told him all those things. And brought to , and he was in his presence, as beforetime.
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And there was war again; and went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.
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And an evil from was upon , as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and was playing with his hand.
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- 10 And sought to smite even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the spear into the wall; and fled, and escaped that night.
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And sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning; and Michal David’s wife told him, saying: ‘If thou not thy life to-night, to-morrow thou shalt be slain.’
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So Michal let down through the window; and he went, and fled, and escaped.
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And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a quilt of goats’ hair at the head thereof, and covered it with a cloth.
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And when sent messengers to take , she said: ‘He is sick.’
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And sent the messengers to see , saying: ‘Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.’
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- 16 And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the quilt of goats’ hair at the head thereof.
- 17 And said unto Michal: ‘Why hast thou deceived me thus, and let mine enemy go, that he is escaped?’ And Michal answered : ‘He said unto me: Let me go; why should I kill thee?’
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Now fled, and escaped, and came to to Ramah, and told him all that had done to him. And he and went and dwelt in Naioth.
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And it was told , saying: ‘Behold, is at Naioth in Ramah.’
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- 20 And sent messengers to take ; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and standing as head over them, the of came upon the messengers of , and they also prophesied.
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And when it was told , he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.
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- 22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great cistern that is in Secu; and he asked and said: ‘Where are and ?’ And one said: ‘Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.’
- 23 And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah; and the of came upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
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And he also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before , and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say: ‘Is also among the prophets?’
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