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1 Samuel 6:12

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And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth–shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth–shemesh.

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  1. 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:

  2. 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.

  3. 1 Samuel 6:13

    And they of Beth–shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

  4. 1 Samuel 6:14

    And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth–shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the Lord.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.