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7 And now, take and make one new cart, and two suckling cows on which a yoke has not gone up, and hitch the cows to the cart, and return their calves from them to the house. 8 And take the ark of YHWH, and set it on the cart. And the articles of gold that you? are returning to Him as a guilt offering, put in the chest by its side, and send it away that it may go. 9 And watch: If it goes up the way of its own border toward Beth-shemesh, He has done to us this great disaster. But if not, then we will know that it is not His hand that struck us; it happened to us by chance.” 10 And the men did so, and they took two suckling cows and bound them to the cart, and they shut up their calves in the house. 11 And they set the ark of YHWH on the cart, and the chest, and the golden rats, and the images of their tumors. 12 And the cows went in the way, on the way to Beth-shemesh, along one highway as they went, going and lowing, and they did not turn aside to the right hand or the left. And the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth-shemesh. 1 Samuel 6:7-12, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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