1 Samuel 6:10
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They did therefore in this manner: and taking two kine, that had sucking calves, they yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

Context
The Ark Returned to Israel
9And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts, towards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we shall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath happened by chance. 10They did therefore in this manner: and taking two kine, that had sucking calves, they yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.11And they laid the ark of God upon the cart, and the little box that had in it the golden mice, and the likeness of the emerods.…
Cross References
Genesis 33:13
And Jacob said: My lord, thou knowest that I have with me tender children, and sheep, and kine with young: which if I should cause to be overdriven, in one day all the flocks will die.

1 Samuel 6:9
And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts, towards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we shall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath happened by chance.

1 Samuel 6:11
And they laid the ark of God upon the cart, and the little box that had in it the golden mice, and the likeness of the emerods.

Lexicon
So the men
הָאֲנָשִׁים֙ (hā·’ă·nā·šîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 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 Hebrew 6213: To do, make

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

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

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

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

cows,
פָרוֹת֙ (p̄ā·rō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 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 Hebrew 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 Hebrew 5699: Something revolving, a wheeled vehicle

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

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


Additional Translations
So the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.And the men did so; and took two milk cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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;
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