But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds, which are nursing, are a care to me, and if they are overdriven for one day, all the flocks will die.
1 Samuel 6:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The men did so; they took two milch cows and yoked them to the cart and shut up their calves at home. Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds, which are nursing, are a care to me, and if they are overdriven for one day, all the flocks will die.
At the seventh time he said, “Look, a little cloud no bigger than a person’s hand is rising out of the sea.” Then he said, “Go say to Ahab, ‘Harness your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’ ”
They put the ark of the Lord on the cart and the box with the gold mice and the images of their tumors.
And watch: if it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by chance.”