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1 Samuel 6:4-6
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4 They inquired, “What is the guilt offering that we should send to him?”

They replied, “The Philistine leaders number five. So send five gold sores and five gold mice, for it is the same plague that has afflicted both you and your leaders. 5 You should make images of the sores and images of the mice[a] that are destroying the land. You should honor the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his grip on you, your gods, and your land.[b] 6 Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did?[c] When God[d] treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 6:5 tn Heb “your mice.” A Qumran ms has simply “the mice.”
  2. 1 Samuel 6:5 tn Heb “Perhaps he will lighten his hand from upon you and from upon your gods and from upon your land.”
  3. 1 Samuel 6:6 tn Heb “like Egypt and Pharaoh hardened their heart.”
  4. 1 Samuel 6:6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  5. 1 Samuel 6:6 tn Heb “and they sent them away and they went.”
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