⁴ Then they said, “What is the trespass offering which we shall return to Him?”

They answered, ^(A)“Five golden tumors and five golden rats, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines. For the same plague was on all of ^[a]you and on your lords.

⁵ Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your rats that ^(A)ravage the land, and you shall ^(B)give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps He will ^(C)lighten^[a] His hand from you, from ^(D)your gods, and from your land.

¹¹ And they set the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the chest with the gold rats and the images of their tumors.

¹⁸ and the golden rats, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and country villages, even as far as the large stone of Abel on which they set the ark of the Lord, which stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.