◄ 1 Samuel 6:10 ►
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Good News Translation
They did what they were told: they took two cows and hitched them to the wagon, and shut the calves in the barn.

New Revised Standard Version
The men did so; they took two milch cows and yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

Contemporary English Version
The Philistines followed their advice. They hitched up the two cows to the cart, but they kept their calves in a barn.

New American Bible
They acted upon this advice. Taking two milk cows, they hitched them to the cart but shut up their calves indoors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They did therefore in this manner: and taking two kine, that had sucking calves, they yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They did therefore in this manner: and taking two kine, that had sucking calves, they yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

Context
The Ark Returned to Israel
…9And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts, towards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we shall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath happened by chance. 10They did therefore in this manner: and taking two kine, that had sucking calves, they yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.11And they laid the ark of God upon the cart, and the little box that had in it the golden mice, and the likeness of the emerods.…
Cross References
Genesis 33:13
And Jacob said: My lord, thou knowest that I have with me tender children, and sheep, and kine with young: which if I should cause to be overdriven, in one day all the flocks will die.

1 Samuel 6:9
And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts, towards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we shall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath happened by chance.

1 Samuel 6:11
And they laid the ark of God upon the cart, and the little box that had in it the golden mice, and the likeness of the emerods.

1 Samuel 6:9
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