1 Samuel 6:10

10 So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves.

1 Samuel 6:10 in Other Translations

10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:

10 The men did so, and took two milk cows and yoked them to the cart and shut up their calves at home.

10 So these instructions were carried out. Two cows were hitched to the cart, and their newborn calves were shut up in a pen.

10 So that's what they did: They hitched two cows to the cart, put their calves in the barn,

10 And the men did so, and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home;

10 The people did this. They took two dairy cows, hitched them to a cart, and shut the calves in the stall.

10 The men did this: They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and confined their calves in the pen.

10 So that's what they did. They took the two cows and tied the cart to them. They put the calves in a pen.

1 Samuel 6:10 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 6:10

And the men did so
Made a new cart, not the lords of the Philistines, but workmen by their orders:

and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart;
with the gear that horses, asses, or oxen, were usually fastened to a carriage they drew:

and shut up their calves at home;
or, "in the house" ^F19; the cow house or stable where they used to be put; this they did to restrain them from following the cows, which would disturb them in drawing the cart.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (tybb) "in domo", Pagninus, Montanus

1 Samuel 6:10 In-Context

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,

9 but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh, then the LORD has brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us but that it happened to us by chance.”

10 So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves.

11 They placed the ark of the LORD on the cart and along with it the chest containing the gold rats and the models of the tumors.

12 Then the cows went straight up toward Beth Shemesh, keeping on the road and lowing all the way; they did not turn to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed them as far as the border of Beth Shemesh.