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14 The utility cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh and stopped there where there was a large stone. They split the wood of the utility cart and sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering to Yahweh. 15 Then the Levites took down the ark of Yahweh and the container[a] that was beside it, in which were the gold objects, and they set them on the large stone.[b] Then the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings, and they made[c] sacrifices to Yahweh on that day. 16 The five rulers of the Philistines saw it and returned to Ekron that same day.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 6:15 Or perhaps “chest” or “bag”
  2. 1 Samuel 6:15 The Masoretic Hebrew text reads “Abel” here; some Hebrew manuscripts and LXX read “stone” (see 6:14–15)
  3. 1 Samuel 6:15 Literally “sacrificed”