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1 Samuel 6:18-20
Contemporary English Version
1 Samuel 6:18-20
Contemporary English Version
18 They also sent one gold rat for each walled town and for every village that the five Philistine rulers controlled. The huge stone[a] where the Levites set the chest is still there in Joshua's field as a reminder of what happened.
The Sacred Chest Is Sent to Kiriath-Jearim
19 Some of the men of Beth-Shemesh looked inside the sacred chest, and the Lord God killed 70[b] of them. This made the people of Beth-Shemesh very sad, 20 and they started saying, “No other God is like the Lord! Who can go near him and stay alive? We'll have to send the chest away from here. But where can we send it?”
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