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)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Judges 4
Tanakh 24 verses
- 1 And the children of again did that which was evil in the sight of , when Ehud was dead.
- 2 And gave them over into the hand of Jabin of , that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, who dwelt in Harosheth-goiim.
- 3 And the children of cried unto ; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of .
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Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged at that time.
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- 5 And she sat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of ; and the children of came up to her for judgment.
- 6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him: ‘Hath not , the of , commanded, saying: Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of and of the children of ?
- 7 And I will draw unto thee to the brook Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thy hand.
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And Barak said unto her: ‘If thou wilt go with me, then I will go; but if thou wilt not go with me, I will not go.’
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And she said: ‘I will surely go with thee; notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thy ; for will give Sisera over into the hand of a woman.’ And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
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And Barak called and together to Kedesh; and there went up ten thousand men at his feet; and Deborah went up with him.
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Now Heber the Kenite had severed himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the father-in- of , and had pitched his tent as far as Elon-bezaanannim, which is by Kedesh.
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And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
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And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth-goiim, unto the brook Kishon.
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And Deborah said unto Barak: ‘Up; for this is the day in which hath delivered Sisera into thy hand; is not gone out before thee?’ So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
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And discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
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But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth-goiim; and all the host of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; there was not a man left.
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- 17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was between Jabin the of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
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And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him: ‘Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; not.’ And he turned in unto her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
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And he said unto her: ‘Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.’ And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
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And he said unto her: ‘Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say: Is there any man here? that thou shalt say: No.’
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- 21 Then Jael Heber’s wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.
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And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him: ‘Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou seekest.’ And he came unto her; and, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples.
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So subdued on that day Jabin the of before the children of .
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And the hand of the children of prevailed more and more against Jabin the of , until they had destroyed Jabin of .
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