Exodus 15:20
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Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
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Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.
As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.
Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maidens playing tambourines.
And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
and Amram’s wife was named Jochebed. She was also a daughter of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.
Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.
And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.