KJV King James Version
And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
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1 Samuel 6:10
And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
So the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.
WEB World English Bible
The men did so, and took two milk cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home;
ASV American Standard Version
And the men did so, and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the men do so, and take two suckling kine, and bind them in the cart, and their young ones they have shut up in the house;
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 6
7 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
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].
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וַיַּעֲשׂ֤וּH6213 · a.sahto make: doהָאֲנָשִׁים֙H582 · e.noshhumanכֵּ֔ןH3651 · kenrightוַיִּקְח֗וּH3947 · la.qachto take: takeשְׁתֵּ֤יH8147 · she.na.yimtwoפָרוֹת֙H6510 · pa.rahheiferעָל֔וֹתH5763 · ulto nurseוַיַּאַסְר֖וּםH631 · a.sarto bindבָּעֲגָלָ֑הH5699 · a.ga.lahcartוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]בְּנֵיהֶ֖םH1121 · benson: childכָּל֥וּH3607 · ka.lato restrainבַבָּֽיִת׃H1004 · betplace
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