These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Samuel 6
Tanakh 21 verses
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And the of was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
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And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying: ‘What shall we do with the of ? declare unto us wherewith we shall send it to its place.’
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- 3 And they said: ‘If ye send away the of the of , send it not empty; but in any wise return Him a guilt-; then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why His hand is not removed from you.’
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Then said they: ‘What shall be the guilt- which we shall return to Him?’ And they said: ‘Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
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Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give unto the of ; peradventure He will lighten His hand from off you, and from off your Elohims, and from off your land.
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Joshua 7:19 1 Samuel 5:6-7 1 Samuel 5:11 Isaiah 42:12 John 9:24 1 Samuel 5:3-4 1 Samuel 5:9 Joel 1:4-7 Jeremiah 13:16 Psalm 32:4 Exodus 12:12 Exodus 10:14-15 Psalm 39:10 Isaiah 19:1 Revelation 11:13 Psalm 18:44 Psalm 66:3 Exodus 8:17 Exodus 8:24 Exodus 8:5 Malachi 2:2 Joel 2:25 Revelation 14:7 Jeremiah 3:13 Numbers 33:4 Revelation 16:9 - 6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when He had wrought among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
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Now therefore take and prepare you a new cart, and 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 of , and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return Him for a guilt-, 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 its own border to Beth-shemesh, then He hath done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall that it is not His hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.’
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- 10 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 put the of 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 by the way to Beth-shemesh; they 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 Beth-shemesh.
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- 13 And they of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the , and rejoiced to see it.
- 14 And the cart came into the field of the Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone; and they cleaved the wood of the cart, and offered up the kine for a burnt- unto .
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And the Levites took down the of , and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone; and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt-offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto .
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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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- 17 And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a guilt- unto : for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon 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 fortified cities and of country villages, even unto by the great stone, whereon they set down the of , which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of the Beth-shemite.
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- 19 And He smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had gazed upon the of , even He smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand men; and the people mourned, because had smitten the people with a great slaughter.
- 20 And the men of Beth-shemesh said: ‘Who is able to stand before , this ? and to whom shall it go up from us?’
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And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying: ‘The Philistines have brought back the of ; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.’
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