1 Samuel 6:10
New International Version
So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves.

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

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

Berean Standard Bible
So the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.

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

New King James Version
Then the men did so; they took two milk cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

New American Standard Bible
Then the men did so: they took two milk cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut in their calves at home.

NASB 1995
Then the men did so, and took two milch cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

NASB 1977
Then the men did so, and took two milch cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the men did so and took two milch cows and hitched them to the cart and shut up their calves at home.

Amplified Bible
And the men did so, and took two milk cows and hitched them to the cart, and corralled their calves at home.

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

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

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;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the men did so and they drove two cows which were nursing, and they bound them to the cart and their offspring they enclosed in the barn

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the Philistines did so; and they took two cows that had calved for the first time, and yoked them to the waggon, 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The people did this. They took two dairy cows, hitched them to a cart, and shut the calves in the stall.

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.

International Standard Version
The men did this. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves in the house.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

Literal Standard Version
And the men do so, and take two suckling cows, and bind them in the cart, and they shut up their young ones in the house;

Majority Standard Bible
So the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.

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

NET Bible
So the men did as instructed. They took two cows that had calves and harnessed them to a cart; they also removed their calves to their stalls.

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.

New Heart English Bible
The men did so, and took two milk cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home;

Webster's Bible Translation
And the men did so; and took two milch cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:

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.

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;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Ark Returned to Israel
9but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.” 10So the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves. 11Then they put the ark of the LORD on the cart, along with the chest containing the gold rats and the images of the tumors.…

Cross References
Genesis 33:13
But Jacob replied, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.

1 Samuel 6:9
but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance."

1 Samuel 6:11
Then they put the ark of the LORD on the cart, along with the chest containing the gold rats and the images of the tumors.


Treasury of Scripture

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

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1 Samuel 6
1. After seven months the Philistines take counsel how to send back the ark
10. They bring it on a new cart with an offering unto Beth Shemesh
19. The people are smitten for looking into the ark
21. They send to them of Kiriath Jearim to fetch it
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So the men
הָאֲנָשִׁים֙ (hā·’ă·nā·šîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

did
וַיַּעֲשׂ֤וּ (way·ya·‘ă·śū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 6213: To do, make

[as instructed].
כֵּ֔ן (kên)
Adverb
Strong's 3651: So -- thus

They took
וַיִּקְח֗וּ (way·yiq·ḥū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3947: To take

two
שְׁתֵּ֤י (šə·tê)
Number - fdc
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

milk
עָל֔וֹת (‘ā·lō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's 5763: To suckle, give milk

cows,
פָרוֹת֙ (p̄ā·rō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 6510: A heifer, cow

hitched
וַיַּאַסְר֖וּם (way·ya·’as·rūm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine plural
Strong's 631: To yoke, hitch, to fasten, to join battle

them to the cart,
בָּעֲגָלָ֑ה (bā·‘ă·ḡā·lāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5699: Something revolving, a wheeled vehicle

and penned up
כָּל֥וּ (kā·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 3607: To shut up, restrain, withhold

their calves.
בְּנֵיהֶ֖ם (bə·nê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son


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