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Chapter 6 And the ark of the Lord was in
the country of the Philistines seven

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months.

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And the Philistines called for the priests
and the diviners, saying, What shall we do

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to the ark of the Lord?

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Tell us wherewith we shall send it to his
place.

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And they said, If ye send away the ark of
the God of Israel, send it not empty,

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but in any wise return him a trespass
offering.

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Then ye shall be healed, and it shall be
known to you why his hand is not removed

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from you.

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Then said they, What shall be the trespass
offering, which we shall return to him?

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They answered, Five golden emeralds,
and five golden mice, according to the

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number of the lords of the Philistines.

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For one plague was on you all,
and on your lords.

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Wherefore ye shall make images of your
emeralds, and images of your mice,

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that mar the land.

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And ye shall give glory unto the God of
Israel.

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Peradventure he will lighten his hand from
off you, and from off your gods,

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and from off your land.

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Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts,
as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened

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their hearts?

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When he had wrought wonderfully among
them, did they not let the people go,

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and they departed?

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Now therefore make a new cart,
and take two milch kine, on which there

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hath come no yoke.

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And tie the kine to the cart, and bring
their calves home from them.

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And take the ark of the Lord, and lay it
upon the cart.

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And put the jewels of gold, which ye
return him for a trespass offering,

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in a coffer by the side thereof.

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And send it away, that it may go.

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And see, if it goeth up by the way of his
own coast to Beth Shemesh, then he hath

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done us this great evil.

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But if not, then we shall know that it is
not his hand that smote us.

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It was a chance that happened to us.

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And the men did so, and took two milch
kine, and tied them to the cart,

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and shut up their calves at home.

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And they laid the ark of the Lord upon the
cart, and the coffer with the mice of

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gold, and the images of their emeralds.

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And the kine took the straight way to the
way of Beth Shemesh, and went along the

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highway, lowing as they went, and turned
not aside to the right hand or to the

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left.

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And the lords of the Philistines went
after them unto the border of Beth

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Shemesh.

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And they of Beth Shemesh were reaping
their wheat harvest in the valley.

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And they lifted up their eyes,
and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

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And the cart came into the field of
Joshua, a Beth Shemite, and stood there,

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where there was a great stone.

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And they claved the wood of the cart,
and offered the kine a burnt offering unto

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the Lord.

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And the Levites took down the ark of the
Lord, and the coffer that was with it,

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wherein the jewels of gold were,
and put them on the great stone.

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And the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt
offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the

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same day unto the Lord.

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And when the five lords of the Philistines
had seen it, they returned to Ekron the

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same day.

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And these are the golden emeralds which
the Philistines returned for a trespass

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offering unto the Lord.

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For Ashdod, one.

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For Geza, one.

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For Ascalon, one.

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For Gath, one.

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For Ekron, one.

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And the golden mice, according to the
number of all the cities of the

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Philistines belonging to the five lords,
both of fenced cities and of country

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villages, even unto the great stone of
Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the

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Lord, which stone remaineth unto this day
in the field of Joshua the Bethshemite.

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And he smote the men of Beth Shemesh,
because they had looked into the ark of

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the Lord.

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Even he smote of the people fifty thousand
and threescore and ten men.

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And the people lamented, because the Lord
had smitten many of the people with a

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great slaughter.

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And the men of Beth Shemesh said,
Who is able to stand before this holy Lord

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God?

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And to whom shall he go up from us?

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And they sent messengers to the
inhabitants of Kirjath-jerim, saying,

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The Philistines have brought again the ark
of the Lord.

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Come ye down, and fetch it up to you.