1 Samuel 6:9-11

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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. ¹¹ They put the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the box with the gold mice and the images of their tumors.