1 Samuel 6:7-9

New American Standard Bible

⁷ Now then, take and ^(A)prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there ^(B)has never been a yoke; and hitch the cows to the cart and take their calves back home, away from them. ⁸ Then take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart; and put ^(C)the articles of gold which you return to Him as ^(D)a guilt offering in a saddlebag by its side. Then send it away that it may go. ⁹ But watch: if it goes up by the way of its own territory to ^(E)Beth-shemesh, then He has done this great evil to us. But if not, then ^(F)we will know that it was not His hand that struck us; it happened to us by chance.”