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5 Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your rats that aravage the land, and you shall bgive glory to the God of Israel; perhaps He will clighten His hand from you, from dyour gods, and from your land.  
6 Why then do you harden your hearts aas the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He did mighty things among them, bdid they not let the people go, that they might depart?  
7 Now therefore, make aa new cart, take two milk cows bwhich have never been yoked, and hitch the cows to the cart; and take their calves home, away from them.  
8 Then take the ark of the Lord and set it on the cart; and put athe articles of gold which you are returning to Him as a trespass offering in a chest by its side. Then send it away, and let it go.  
9 And watch: if it goes up the road to its own territory, to aBeth Shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then bwe shall know that it is not His hand that struck us—it happened to us by chance.”  
10 Then the men did so; they took two milk cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.
11 And they set the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the chest with the gold rats and the images of their tumors.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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1 Samuel 6:7

make a new cart—Their object in making a new one for the purpose seems to have been not only for cleanliness and neatness, but from an impression that there would have been an impropriety in using one that had been applied to meaner or more common services. It appears to have been a covered wagon (see on II Samuel 6:3).

two milch kine—Such untrained heifers, wanton and vagrant, would pursue no certain and regular path, like those accustomed to the yoke, and therefore were most unlikely of their own spontaneous motion to prosecute the direct road to the land of Israel.

bring their calves home from them—The strong natural affection of the dams might be supposed to stimulate their return homewards, rather than direct their steps in a foreign country.




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