1 Samuel 6:4-6

International Standard Version

⁴ They asked, “What is the guilt offering that we should send back to him?”

“Five gold tumors and five gold mice,” they answered, “according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, since the same plague was on all of you and on your lords. ⁵ Make images of your tumors and images of the mice that are destroying your land, and you are to give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will remove his pressure from you, your gods, and your land. ⁶ Why should you harden your hearts just as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? Isn’t it true that after God^[a] toyed with them, they let Israel^[b] go, and off they went?