1 Samuel 6:8-10

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁸ Take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart, and put in a box at its side the figures of gold, which you are returning to him as a guilt-offering. Then send it off, and let it go on its way. ⁹ And watch; if it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by chance.’

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