19 And they said to him, “Keep quiet; jput your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us ka father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?”
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Job 21:5
Look at me and be appalled,
and lay your hand over your mouth.
Job 29:9
the princes refrained from talking
and laid their hand on their mouth;
Job 40:4
“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you?
I lay my hand on my mouth.
Proverbs 30:32
If you have been foolish, exalting yourself,
or if you have been devising evil,
put your hand on your mouth.
Micah 7:16
The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might;
they shall lay their hands on their mouths;
their ears shall be deaf;
Judges 17:10
And Micah said to him, “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year and a suit of clothes and your living.” And the Levite went in.
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