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\"\u201chearken\u201dThe Christian Science Journal website published an article by Judith Hardy Olson titled, \u201cHearken\u201d and Heal!:

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Hearken\u00a0is not\u00a0a word you come across in daily speech or conversation. It sounds old-fashioned. In fact, the first time I ever used it was in elementary school, when we sang the traditional English refrain of an old Neapolitan song: \u201cHearken, hearken, music sounds afar! Funiculi, funicula, funiculi, funicula.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u201d\u00a0

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But as I started being a serious student of Christian Science, I noticed that\u00a0hearken\u00a0comes up a lot in the Bible, at least in the King James Version. In fact, it appears 233 times (in various forms). So it must be important, I reasoned. It had to mean more than just \u201chear,\u201d because it says in Isaiah, \u201cThe ears of them that hear shall hearken\u201d (32:3). When I looked up\u00a0hearken\u00a0in my dictionary, I found: \u201cTo listen, hear, and heed.\u201d In today\u2019s vernacular, it would probably be \u201cListen up!\u201d or \u201cPay attention!\u201d\u00a0

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In Scripture,\u00a0hearken\u00a0is often used as an admonition to not only listen and hear, but heed God\u2019s voice\u2014or that of His messengers. The Old Testament records how Moses was told by God that he should go to the children of Israel and tell them he was chosen to lead them out of slavery in Egypt. He responded, \u201cThey will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice\u201d (Exodus 4:1). The Lord then gave Moses two signs of His omnipotent power that he should show the people: (1) Following the Lord\u2019s instructions, he threw his rod (walking stick) on the ground and it became a serpent; then, he picked the serpent up by the tail and it became a rod again. (2) Directed to then put his hand in his bosom, once again Moses obeyed, and his hand turned leprous; repeating the motion, the leprosy vanished. If the children of Israel didn\u2019t heed him after he showed them the first sign, the second would offer additional proof…\u00a0

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