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“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. 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.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 6:4 Kethib; Qere hemorrhoids (cf Deut 28:27); also in 6:5; see note at 6:11.
  2. 1 Samuel 6:4 LXX lacks and five gold mice.

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