1 Samuel 6:10
And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
1 Samuel 6:10 in other translations
| BSB | So the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves. |
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| WEB | The men did so, and took two milk cows and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home. |
| ASV | And the men did so, and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home; |
| YLT | 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; |
| DARBY | And the men did so, and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home. |
| BBE | And the men did so; they took two cows, yoking them to the cart and shutting up their young ones in their living-place: |
| Webster | And the men did so; and took two milch cows, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home: |
What does 1 Samuel 6:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Samuel 6:9-12
9-12. Beth-shemesh--that is, "house of the sun," now Ain Shems [Robinson], a city of priests in Judah, in the southeast border of Dan, lying in a beautiful and extensive valley. Josephus says they were set a-going near a place where the road divided into two--the one leading back to Ekron, where were their calves, and the other to Beth-shemesh. Their frequent lowings attested their ardent longing for their young…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 6:10-18
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
1 Samuel 6:10 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- 1 Samuel 6:9
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth–shemesh, then he hath 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.
- 1 Samuel 6:10
And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
- 1 Samuel 6:11
And they laid the ark of the Lord upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
1 Samuel 6:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y aquellos hombres lo hicieron así; pues tomando dos vacas que criaban, unciéronlas al carro, y encerraron en casa sus becerros. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et les hommes firent ainsi, et prirent deux vaches qui allaitaient, et les attelèrent au chariot, et enfermèrent leurs petits dans la maison; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und die Männer taten also und nahmen zwei säugende Kühe und spannten sie an den Wagen, und ihre Kälber sperrten sie zu Hause ein. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Fecerunt ergo illi hoc modo: et tollentes duas vaccas quæ lactabant vitulos, junxerunt ad plaustrum, vitulosque earum concluserunt domi. |