1Samuel:6:6-18
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Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts ,
as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts ?
when he had wrought wonderfully among them ,
did they not let the people go ,
and they departed ?
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Now therefore make a new cart ,
and take two milch kine ,
on which there hath come no yoke ,
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 ;
and put the jewels of gold ,
which ye return him for a trespass offering ,
in a coffer by the side thereof ;
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 Bethshemesh ,
then he hath done us this great evil :
but if not ,
then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us :
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 ,
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 gold and the images of their emerods .
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And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh ,
and went along the highway ,
lowing as they went ,
and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left ;
and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh .
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And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley :
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 Bethshemite ,
and stood there ,
where there was a great stone :
and they clave the wood of the cart ,
and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD .
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And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD ,
and the coffer that was with it ,
wherein the jewels of gold were ,
and put them on the great stone :
and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the 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 same day .
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And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD ;
for Ashdod one ,
for Gaza one ,
for Askelon one ,
for Gath one ,
for Ekron one ;
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And the golden mice ,
according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords ,
both of fenced cities ,
and of country villages ,
even unto the great stone of Abel ,
whereon they set down the ark of the LORD :
which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua ,
the Bethshemite .