1Sa 6:7-10 | ESV | STEP | Now then , take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke , and yoke the cows to the cart , but take their calves home , away from them .

d[See ver. 3 above]

1 Samuel 6:7-10

7 Now then, take and prepare ^aa new cart and two milk cows ^bon which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them. 8 And take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart and put in a box at its side ^cthe figures of gold, which you are returning to him as ^da guilt offering. Then send it off and let it go its way 9 and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to ^eBeth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not ^fhis hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.”

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