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1 Samuel 6:1
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The Ark Returned to Israel

1 Now the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
2 And the Philistines acalled for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us how we should send it to its place.”  
3 So they said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it aempty; but by all means return it to Him with ba trespass offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why His hand is not removed from you.”  
4 Then they said, “What is the trespass offering which we shall return to Him?” They answered, a“Five golden tumors and five golden rats, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines. For the same plague was on all of1 you and on your lords.  
5 Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your rats that aravage the land, and you shall bgive glory to the God of Israel; perhaps He will clighten His hand from you, from dyour gods, and from your land.  
6 Why then do you harden your hearts aas the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He did mighty things among them, bdid they not let the people go, that they might depart?  
7 Now therefore, make aa new cart, take two milk cows bwhich have never been yoked, and hitch the cows to the cart; and take their calves home, away from them.  
8 Then take the ark of the Lord and set it on the cart; and put athe articles of gold which you are returning to Him as a trespass offering in a chest by its side. Then send it away, and let it go.  
9 And watch: if it goes up the road to its own territory, to aBeth Shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then bwe shall know that it is not His hand that struck us—it happened to us by chance.”  
10 Then the men did so; they took two milk cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
11 And they set the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the chest with the gold rats and the images of their tumors.
Verse Comparison: 1 Samuel 6:1

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American Standard Version
And the ark of Jehovah was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

Amplified® Bible
THE ARK of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

Contemporary English Version
After the sacred chest had been in Philistia for seven months,

Darby English Version
And the ark of Jehovah was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

Good News Bible
After the LORD's Covenant Box had been in Philistia for seven months,

King James Version
And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

New American Standard Bible
Now the ark of the LORD had been in the country of the Philistines seven months.

New International Version
When the ark of the LORD had been in Philistine territory seven months,

New King James Version
Now the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Now the ark of the LORD had remained in the country of the Philistines seven months.

Revised Standard Version
The ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

Young's Literal Translation
And the ark of Jehovah is in the field of the Philistines seven months,


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