1 Samuel 6:10
 1 Samuel 6:10 
New International Version (©2011)
So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves.

New Living Translation (©2007)
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 (©2001)
The men did so, and took two milk cows and yoked them to the cart and shut up their calves at home.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then the men did so, and took two milch cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The men did this: They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and confined their calves in the pen.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The men did this. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves in the house.

NET Bible (©2006)
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The people did this. They took two dairy cows, hitched them to a cart, and shut the calves in the stall.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And 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;

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.

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:

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;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:10-18 These two kine knew their owner, their great Owner, whom Hophin and Phinehas knew not. God's providence takes notice even of brute creatures, and serves its own purposes by them. When the reapers saw the ark, they rejoiced; their joy for that was greater than the joy of harvest. The return of the ark, and the revival of holy ordinances, after days of restraint and trouble, are matters of great joy.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the men did so,.... Made a new cart, not the lords of the Philistines, but workmen by their orders:

and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart; with the gear that horses, asses, or oxen, were usually fastened to a carriage they drew:

and shut up their calves at home; or, "in the house" (s); the cow house or stable where they used to be put; this they did to restrain them from following the cows, which would disturb them in drawing the cart.

(s) "in domo", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.


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The Ark Returned to Israel
9And see, if it goes up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us. 10And the men did so; and took two milk cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home: 11And they laid the ark of the LORD on the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors. …

Genesis 33:13 But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die.
1 Samuel 6:9 but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh, then the LORD has brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us but that it happened to us by chance."
1 Samuel 6:11 They placed the ark of the LORD on the cart and along with it the chest containing the gold rats and the models of the tumors.