| 1 Samuel 6 - Versions
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| 1 Samuel 6 Text (WEB)
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- The ark of Yahweh was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
- The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, "What shall we do with the ark of Yahweh? Show us with which we shall send it to its place."
- They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don't send it empty; but by all means return him a trespass offering: then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you."
- Then they said, "What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him?" They said, "Five golden tumors, 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.
- Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
- Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn't they let the people go, and they departed?
- "Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart, and two milk cows, on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;
- and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by its side; and send it away, that it may go.
- Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance that happened to us."
- The men did so, and took two milk cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home;
- and they put the ark of Yahweh on the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.
- The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.
- They of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
- The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they split the wood of the cart, and offered up the cows for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
- The Levites took down the ark of Yahweh, and the coffer that was with it, in which 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 to Yahweh.
- When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
- These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
- 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 to the great stone, whereon they set down the ark of Yahweh, [which stone remains] to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.
- He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Yahweh, he struck of the people fifty thousand seventy men; and the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.
- The men of Beth Shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?"
- They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, "The Philistines have brought back the ark of Yahweh; come down, and bring it up to yourselves."
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| 1 Samuel 6 Text (Hebrew)
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- ויהי ארון־יהוה בשדה פלשתים שבעה חדשים׃
- ויקראו פלשתים לכהנים ולקסמים לאמר מה־נעשה לארון יהוה הודענו במה נשלחנו למקומו׃
- ויאמרו אם־משלחים את־ארון אלהי ישראל אל־תשלחו אתו ריקם כי־השב תשיבו לו אשם אז תרפאו ונודע לכם למה לא־תסור ידו םכם׃
- ויאמרו מה האשם אשר נשיב לו ויאמרו מספר סרני פלשתים חמשה זהב וחמשה עכברי זהב כי־מגפה אחת לכלם ולסרניכם׃
- ועשיתם צלמי וצלמי עכבריכם המשחיתם את־הארץ ונתתם לאלהי ישראל כבוד אולי יקל את־ידו מעליכם ומעל אלהיכם ומעל ארצכם׃
- ולמה תכבדו את־לבבכם כאשר כבדו מצרים ופרעה את־לבם הלוא כאשר התעלל בהם וישלחום וילכו׃
- ועתה קחו ועשו עגלה חדשה אחת ושתי פרות עלות אשר לא־עלה עליהם על ואסרתם את־הפרות בעגלה והשיבתם בניהם מאחריהם הביתה׃
- ולקחתם את־ארון יהוה ונתתם אתו אל־העגלה ואת כלי הזהב אשר השבתם לו אשם תשימו בארגז מצדו ושלחתם אתו והלך׃
- וראיתם אם־דרך גבולו יעלה בית שמש הוא עשה לנו את־הרעה הגדולה הזאת ואם־לא וידענו כי לא ידו נגעה בנו מקרה הוא היה לנו׃
- ויעשו האנשים כן ויקחו שתי פרות עלות ויאסרום בעגלה ואת־בניהם כלו בבית׃
- וישמו את־ארון יהוה אל־העגלה ואת הארגז ואת עכברי הזהב ואת צלמי טחריהם׃
- וישרנה הפרות בדרך על־דרך בית שמש במסלה אחת הלכו הלך וגעו ולא־סרו ימין ושמאול וסרני פלשתים הלכים אחריהם עד־גבול בית שמש׃
- ובית שמש קצרים קציר־חטים בעמק וישאו את־עיניהם ויראו את־הארון וישמחו לראות׃
- והעגלה באה אל־שדה יהושע בית־השמשי ותעמד שם ושם אבן גדולה ויבקעו את־עצי העגלה ואת־הפרות העלו עלה ליהוה׃ ס
- והלוים הורידו את־ארון יהוה ואת־הארגז אשר־אתו אשר־בו כלי־זהב וישמו אל־האבן הגדולה ואנשי בית־שמש העלו עלות ויזבחו זבחים ביום ההוא ליהוה׃
- וחמשה סרני־פלשתים ראו וישבו עקרון ביום ההוא׃ ס
- ואלה טחרי הזהב אשר השיבו פלשתים אשם ליהוה לאשדוד אחד לעזה אחד לאשקלון אחד לגת אחד לעקרון אחד׃ ס
- ועכברי הזהב מספר כל־ערי פלשתים לחמשת הסרנים מעיר מבצר ועד כפר הפרזי ועד אבל הגדולה אשר הניחו עליה את ארון יהוה עד היום הזה בשדה יהושע בית־השמשי׃
- ויך באנשי בית־שמש כי ראו בארון יהוה ויך בעם שבעים איש חמשים אלף איש ויתאבלו העם כי־הכה יהוה בעם מכה גדולה׃
- ויאמרו אנשי בית־שמש מי יוכל לעמד לפני יהוה האלהים הקדוש הזה ואל־מי יעלה מעלינו׃ ס
- וישלחו מלאכים אל־יושבי קרית־יערים לאמר השבו פלשתים את־ארון יהוה רדו העלו אתו אליכם׃
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| 1 Samuel 6 Text (Latin)
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- Fuit ergo arca Domini in regione Philisthinorum septem mensibus.
- Et vocaverunt Philisthiim sacerdotes et divinos, dicentes : Quid faciemus de arca Domini ? indicate nobis quomodo remittamus eam in locum suum. Qui dixerunt :
- Si remittitis arcam Dei Israël, nolite dimittere eam vacuam, sed quod debetis, reddite ei pro peccato, et tunc curabimini : et scietis quare non recedat manus ejus a vobis.
- Qui dixerunt : Quid est quod pro delicto reddere debeamus ei ? Responderuntque illi :
- Juxta numerum provinciarum Philisthinorum quinque anos aureos facietis, et quinque mures aureos : quia plaga una fuit omnibus vobis, et satrapis vestris. Facietisque similitudines anorum vestrorum, et similitudines murium, qui demoliti sunt terram : et dabitis Deo Israël gloriam : si forte relevet manum suam a vobis, et a diis vestris, et a terra vestra.
- Quare aggravatis corda vestra, sicut aggravavit Ægyptus et Pharao cor suum ? Nonne postquam percussus est, tunc dimisit eos, et abierunt ?
- Nunc ergo arripite et facite plaustrum novum unum, et duas vaccas fœtas, quibus non est impositum jugum, jungite in plaustro, et recludite vitulos earum domi.
- Tolletisque arcam Domini, et ponetis in plaustro, et vasa aurea, quæ exsolvistis ei pro delicto, ponetis in capsellam ad latus ejus : et dimittite eam ut vadat.
- Et aspicietis : et si quidem per viam finium suorum ascenderit contra Bethsames, ipse fecit nobis hoc malum grande : sin autem, minime : sciemus quia nequaquam manus ejus tetigit nos, sed casu accidit.
- Fecerunt ergo illi hoc modo : et tollentes duas vaccas, quæ lactabant vitulos, junxerunt ad plaustrum, vitulosque earum concluserunt domi.
- Et posuerunt arcam Dei super plaustrum, et capsellam, quæ habebat mures aureos et similitudines anorum.
- Ibant autem in directum vaccæ per viam, quæ ducit Bethsames, et itinere uno gradiebantur, pergentes et mugientes : et non declinabant neque ad dextram neque ad sinistram : sed et satrapæ Philisthiim sequebantur usque ad terminos Bethsames.
- Porro Bethsamitæ metebant triticum in valle : et elevantes oculos suos, viderunt arcam, et gavisi sunt cum vidissent.
- Et plaustrum venit in agrum Josue Bethsamitæ, et stetit ibi. Erat autem ibi lapis magnus, et conciderunt ligna plaustri, vaccasque imposuerunt super ea holocaustum Domino.
- Levitæ autem deposuerunt arcam Dei, et capsellam, quæ erat juxta eam, in qua erant vasa aurea, et posuerunt super lapidem grandem. Viri autem Bethsamitæ obtulerunt holocausta, et immolaverunt victimas in die illa Domino.
- Et quinque satrapæ Philisthinorum viderunt, et reversi sunt in Accaron in die illa.
- Hi sunt autem ani aurei, quos reddiderunt Philisthiim pro delicto, Domino : Azotus unum, Gaza unum, Ascalon unum, Geth unum, Accaron unum :
- et mures aureos secundum numerum urbium Philisthiim, quinque provinciarum, ab urbe murata usque ad villam quæ erat absque muro, et usque ad Abelmagnum, super quem posuerunt arcam Domini, quæ erat usque in illum diem in agro Josue Bethsamitis.
- Percussit autem de viris Bethsamitibus, eo quod vidissent arcam Domini : et percussit de populo septuaginta viros, et quinquaginta millia plebis. Luxitque populus, eo quod Dominus percussisset plebem plaga magna.
- Et dixerunt viri Bethsamitæ : Quis poterit stare in conspectu Domini Dei sancti hujus ? et ad quem ascendet a nobis ?
- Miseruntque nuntios ad habitatores Cariathiarim, dicentes : Reduxerunt Philisthiim arcam Domini, descendite, et reducite eam ad vos.
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| 1 Samuel 6 Text (KJV)
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- And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
- And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.
- And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
- 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.
- 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.
- Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharoah hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
- 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:
- 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.
- And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.
- And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
- 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.
- And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, 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 Beth-shemesh.
- And they of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
- And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, 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.
- 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 Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
- And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
- 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;
- 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 Beth-shemite.
- And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
- And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
- And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.
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