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|1 Samuel 6:1|
When the ark of the LORD had been in Philistine territory for seven months,
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|1 Samuel 6:2|
the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us how we should send it back to its place.”
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|1 Samuel 6:3|
They answered, “If you return the ark of the god of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means send a guilt offering to him. Then you will be healed, and you will know why his hand has not been lifted from you.”
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|1 Samuel 6:4|
The Philistines asked, “What guilt offering should we send to him?” They replied, “Five gold tumours and five gold rats, according to the number of the Philistine rulers, because the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.
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|1 Samuel 6:5|
Make models of the tumours and of the rats that are destroying the country, and pay honour to Israel’s god. Perhaps he will lift his hand from you and your gods and your land.
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|1 Samuel 6:6|
Why do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When he [That is, God] treated them harshly, did they not send the Israelites out so that they could go on their way?
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|1 Samuel 6:7|
“Now then, get a new cart ready, with two cows that have calved and have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.
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|1 Samuel 6:8|
Take the ark of the LORD and put it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to him as a guilt offering. Send it on its way,
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|1 Samuel 6:9|
but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, towards Beth Shemesh, then the LORD has brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we shall know that it was not his hand that struck us and that it happened to us by chance.”
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|1 Samuel 6:10|
So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves.
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