³ They answered, “If you return the ark of the god of Israel, do not send it back to him without a gift;^(A) by all means send a guilt offering^(B) to him. Then you will be healed, and you will know why his hand^(C) has not been lifted from you.”

⁸ Take the ark of the Lord and put it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to him as a guilt offering. Send it on its way,