1 Samuel 6:4-6

Common English Bible

⁴ “What compensation offering should we return to him?” they asked.

The priests and diviners replied: “Five gold tumors^[a] and five gold mice,^[b] matching the number of the Philistine rulers, because the same plague came on all of you and your rulers. ⁵ You must make images of your tumors and the mice that have devastated the land. Honor Israel’s God. Perhaps he will lighten the weight of his hand on you, your gods, and your land. ⁶ Why be stubborn like the Egyptians and Pharaoh? After God had dealt harshly with them, didn’t they send the Israelites on their way?