1 Samuel 6:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ And they said, “What is the guilt offering which we return to Him?” And they answered, “The number of the princes of the Philistines: five golden tumours and five golden rats. For the same plague was on all of you and on your princes.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Then they said, What shall be the guilt offering which we shall return to Him? They answered, Five golden tumors and five golden mice, according to the number of the Philistine lords, for one plague was on you all, even on your lords.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Then said they, What shall be the trespass-offering which we shall return to him? And they said, Five golden tumors, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

Common English Bible

⁴ “What compensation offering should we return to him?” they asked. The priests and diviners replied: “Five gold tumors and five gold mice, matching the number of the Philistine rulers, because the same plague came on all of you and your rulers.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And they said, "What is it that we ought to repay to him because of transgression?" And they responded:

1 Samuel 6:4 Cross References

Exodus 12:35

And the children of Yisra’ĕ

Joshua 13:3

from Shiḥ

Judges 14:19

Then the Spirit of יהוה  came upon him mightily, and he went down to Ashqelon and smote thirty of their men, stripped them, and gave the changes of garments to those who had explained the riddle. And his displeasure burned, and he went back up to his father’s house.

Judges 3:3

five princes of the Philistines, and all the Kenaʽ

1 Samuel 5:12

And the men who did not die were smitten with tumours, and the cry of the city went up to the heavens.

1 Samuel 5:6

But the hand of יהוה  was heavy on the Ashdoḏ

1 Samuel 5:9

And it came to be, after they removed it, that the hand of יהוה  was against the city with a very great destruction. And He smote the men of the city, from the least to the greatest, and tumours broke out on them.

1 Samuel 6:5

“And you shall make images of your tumours and images of your rats that ruin the land, and you shall give esteem to the Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

1 Samuel 6:8

“And take the ark of יהוה  and put it on the wagon. And put the objects of gold which you are returning to Him as a guilt offering in a chest by its side, and send it away, and it shall go.