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Now therefore makeanewcart, and taketwomilchkine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calveshome from them:
8
And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
9
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this greatevil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.
12
And the kine took the straightway to the way of Bethshemesh, 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 Philistineswentafter them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
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And the cartcame into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a greatstone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.