And was in of the Philistines seven months.
And called the priests, and the clairvoyants, and their enchanters, saying, What should we do with the ark of the lord? Make known to us by what means we shall send it unto its place!
And they said, If you yourselves send the ark of the covenant of the lord God of Israel, do not send it out empty! but by delivering it up, you give it back for the torment! and then you shall be healed, and it shall be atoned unto you, if should you not remove his hand from you?
And they say, What for the torment shall we give for it? And they said,
According to of the satrapies of the Philistines five buttocks of gold, for in you, and your rulers, and to the people. And five mice a representation of your mice, of the ones corrupting the land. And you shall give to the God glory, so that he should lighten his hand from you, and from your gods, and from your land.
And why do you oppress your hearts as oppressed their hearts? Was it not when he mocked them, them, and they went forth?
And now, take and make wagon and two oxen having given birth for the first time, without the offspring, upon which was not placed upon And team up the oxen on the wagon, and their offspring lead away from behind them to
And you shall take the ark of the lord, and you shall put it upon the wagon; and the items of gold, deliver it for the torment! And you shall put in place a chest on part of it, and you shall send it, and it shall go forth.
And you shall see if into of their border it shall go according to Beth-shemesh, did to us evil And if not, then we will know that his hand that touched us, but that a coincidence to us.
And did so. And they took two oxen, having given birth for the first time. And they teamed them up to the wagon, and their offspring they shut up at
And they put the ark of the lord upon the wagon, and the place chest, and the mice of gold, and the images of their buttocks.
And straightened out in the journey on the way to Beth-Shemesh, in a road in and they labored, and they turned not aside right nor left; and the satraps of the Philistines went after them unto of Beth-shemesh.
And the ones in Beth-shemesh were harvesting of wheat in And they lifted their eyes, and they beheld the ark of the lord, and they were rejoiced to meet it.
And the wagon entered into of Joshua, the one in Beth-shemesh, and it stood there by stone And they split the wood of the wagon, and the oxen they offered for a whole burnt-offering to the
And the Levites brought the ark of the and the place chest with it, and the items of gold, and put them upon the stone And the men of Beth-shemesh offered whole burnt-offerings, and they sacrificed sacrifices to the in that day.
And the five satraps of the Philistines saw, and they returned to Ekron in that day.
And these are the buttocks which gave back for the torment to the for Ashdod one, Gaza one, Ashkelon one, Gath one, Ekron one.
And mice according to of all the cities of the Philistines, of the five satraps, from being solidly fortified, and unto of the Perezzite, and unto stone of which they placed upon it the ark of the covenant of the lord until this day in of Joshua, of the one of Beth-shemesh.
And he struck of Beth-shemesh, for they beheld the ark of the And he struck among them seventy men, and fifty thousand men of the people. And mourned because among the people calamity
And they said, the men, the ones from Beth-shemesh, Who shall be able to stand before God And to whom shall ascend of us?
And they sent messengers to the ones dwelling in Kirjath-jearim, saying, returned the ark of the and you go down and lead it up unto you!