KJV King James Version
And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
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1 Samuel 6:11
And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then they put the ark of the LORD on the cart, along with the chest containing the gold rats and the images of the tumors.
WEB World English Bible
and they put the ark of Yahweh on the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.
ASV American Standard Version
and they put the ark of Jehovah upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and they place the ark of Jehovah upon the cart, and the coffer, and the golden mice, and the images of their emerods.
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 6
8 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put 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.
9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, [then] he hath 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.
10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
11 And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
12 And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, [and] went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside [to] the right hand or [to] the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
13 And [they of] Bethshemesh [were] reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see [it].
14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where [there was] a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.
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וַיָּשִׂ֛מוּH7760 · sumto set: makeאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]אֲר֥וֹןH727 · a.ronarkיְהוָ֖הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)הָעֲגָלָ֑הH5699 · a.ga.lahcartוְאֵ֣תH853 · et[Obj.]הָאַרְגַּ֗זH712 · ar.gazboxוְאֵת֙H853 · et[Obj.]עַכְבְּרֵ֣יH5909 · akh.barmouseהַזָּהָ֔בH2091 · za.havgoldוְאֵ֖תH853 · et[Obj.]צַלְמֵ֥יH6754 · tse.lemimageטְחֹרֵיהֶֽם׃H2914 · te.chortumor
Cross-references
1 Chronicles 15:13-15For because ye [did it] not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.1 Chronicles 13:7And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.2 Samuel 6:3And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that [was] in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.
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