1 Samuel 6:10
Modern Translations
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 Study Bible
So the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
Classic Translations
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.

King James 2000 Bible
And the men did so; and took two milk cows, and tied 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;

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;

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

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;

A Faithful Version
And the men did so. And they took two milk cows and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

Darby Bible Translation
And the men did so, and took two milch kine, and tied 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:

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:

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And the men did so: for they tooke two kine that gaue milke, and tied them to the cart, and shut the calues at home.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And the men did euen so: And toke two kyne that gaue milke, & tyed them to the cart, and kept the calues at home.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
The men dyd so, and toke two yonge mylke kyne, and yocked them to a cart, and helde their calues at home,
Literal Translations
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;

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;

Smith's Literal Translation
And the men did so, and they will take two heifers giving milk, and they will make them fast to the wagon, and they shut up their young in the house.

Catholic Translations
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.

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.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
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

Lamsa Bible
And the men did so; and took two milch cows and tied them to the cart and shut up their calves at home;

OT Translations
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.

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.
















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