¹And the P’lishtim [Immigrants] took the ark of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] , and brought it from Even-’’Ezer [treasure] [stone of help] unto Ashdod [powerful] .

²When the P’lishtim [Immigrants] took the ark of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] , they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

³And when they of Ashdod [powerful] arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon [was] fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) . And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

⁴And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon [was] fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) ; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands [were] cut off upon the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was left to him.

⁵Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, trample on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod [powerful] unto this day.

⁶But the hand of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was heavy upon them of Ashdod [powerful] , and he destroyed them, and struck them with hemorrhoids, [even] Ashdod [powerful] and the coasts thereof.

⁷And when the men of Ashdod [powerful] saw that [it was] so, they said, The ark of the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.

⁸They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] ? And they answered, Let the ark of the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] be carried about unto Gat [Winepress] . And they carried the ark of the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] about [there] .

⁹And it was [so] , that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was against the city with a very great destruction: and he struck the men of the city, both small and great, and they had hemorrhoids in their secret parts.

¹⁰Therefore they sent the ark of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] to ‘Ekron [Torn Up by the Roots] . And it came to pass, as the ark of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] came to ‘Ekron [Torn Up by the Roots] , that the ‘Ekron [Torn Up by the Roots] cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to us, to slay us and our people.

¹¹So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] , and said, Send away the ark of the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] was very heavy there.

¹²And the men that died not were smitten with the hemorrhoids: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.