09:006:004 Then said they, What shall be the trespass
offering which we
shall
return to him? They answered, 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.
09:006:005 Wherefore ye shall make images of your
emerods, and images of
your
mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto
the
God
of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand
from off
you,
and from off your gods, and from off your land.
09:006:006 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?
09:006:007 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:
09:006:008 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.
09:006:009 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.
09:006:010 And the men did so; and took two milch
kine, and tied them to
the
cart, and shut up their calves at home:
09:006:011 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.
09:006:012 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.
09:006:013 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.
09:006:014 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.
09:006:015 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.


