1 Samuel 6:10 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁰ And the men did so and took two milk cows and hitched them to the wagon, and shut up their calves at home.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁰ The rulers did just that. They took two nursing cows and harnessed them to the cart, penning their calves up at home.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ Therefore, they did it in this way. And taking two cows that were feeding calves, they yoked them to the cart, and they enclosed their calves at home.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ They did therefore in this manner: and taking two kine, that had suckling calves, they yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

1 Samuel 6:10 Cross References

Genesis 33:13

But he said to him, “My master knows that the children are weak, and the flocks and herds which are nursing are with me. And if the men should drive them hard one day, all the flocks shall die.

1 Kings 18:44

And it came to be the seventh time, that he said, “See, a little cloud as small as a man’s hand is coming out of the sea!” And he said, “Go up, say to Aḥaḇ, ‘Hitch up, and go down before the rain stops you.’ ”

1 Samuel 6:11

And they put the ark of יהוה on the wagon, and the chest with the gold rats and the images of their tumours.

1 Samuel 6:9

“And you shall see, if it goes up the way to its own border, to Bĕyth Shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then we shall know that His hand has not come against us – an accident it was to us.”