1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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I Samuel 6:7

Now, therefore, take and make a new cart: and two kine that have calved, on which there hath come no yoke, tie to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

New cart. It would have been deemed irreverent to use one that had been employed for other profane purposes, 2 Kings 6:3. --- Home. All these circumstances tended to prevent the ark from being conveyed home, (Calmet) unless Providence interfered.