AND the Ark of Yahuah was in the country of the Pelishtiym seven months.
And the Pelishtiym called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the Ark of Yahuah? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.
And they said, If ye send away the Ark of the Elohai of Yashar'el, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden tumors, and five golden mice, according to the number of the cereniym of the Pelishtiym: for one plague was on you all, and on your cereniym.
Wherefore ye shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the Elohiym of Yashar'el: perchance he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your elohiym, and from off your land.
Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Mitsriym and Phar'oh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there has come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
And take the Ark of Yahuah, and lay it upon the cart; and put את the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
And see, if it goes up by the way of his own coast to Beyt Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.
And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
And they laid the Ark of Yahuah upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.
And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beyt Shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the cereniym of the Pelishtiym went after them unto the border of Beyt Shemesh.
And they of Beyt Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the Ark, and rejoiced to see it.
And the cart came into the field of Yahusha, a Beyt Hash-Shimshiy, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine an ascending smoke offering unto Yahuah.
And the Leviyiym took down the Ark of Yahuah, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beyt Shemesh offered ascending smoke offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto Yahuah.
And when the five cereniym of the Pelishtiym had seen it, they returned to Eqron the same day.
And these are the golden tumors which the Pelishtiym returned for a trespass offering unto Yahuah; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashqelon one, for Gath one, for Eqron one;
And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Pelishtiym belonging to the five cereniym, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Avel, whereon they set down את the Ark of Yahuah: which stone remains unto this day in the field of Yahusha, the Beyt Hash-Shimshiy.
And he smote the men of Beyt Shemesh, because they had looked into the Ark of Yahuah, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because Yahuah had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
And the men of Beyt Shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Yahuah Elohiym? and to whom shall he go up from us?
And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Qiryat Ye'ariym, saying, The Pelishtiym have brought again the Ark of Yahuah; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.