4 And Pharʹaoh will not listen to YOU men;+ and I shall have to lay my hand upon Egypt and bring my armies,+ my people,+ the sons of Israel,+ out from the land of Egypt with great judgments.+

19 Hence the magic-practicing priests said to Pharʹaoh: “It is the finger+ of God!”+ But Pharʹaoh’s heart continued to be obstinate,+ and he did not listen to them, just as Jehovah had spoken.

7 And the men of Ashʹdod came to see that it was so, and they said: “Do not let the ark of the God of Israel dwell with us, because his hand has been hard against us and against Daʹgon our god.”*+

9 And YOU must look: if it is the road to its territory that it goes up, to Beth-sheʹmesh,+ it is he that has done to us this great evil; but if not, we must know that it was not his hand that touched us; an accident+ it was that happened to us.”