<p class="bodytext">They transported the ark on a new cart from the house of Abinadab; Uzzah and Ahio were guiding the cart,

<p class="poetry">Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">who pull sin as with cart ropes.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So Moses accepted the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.

He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their service required;

<p class="poetry">Look! I will press you down,p> <p class="poetry">like a cart loaded down with grain presses down.<n id="1" />p>

They brought<n id="1" /> their offering before the <sc>Lordsc>, six covered carts<n id="2" /> and twelve oxen &#8211; one cart for every two of the leaders, and an ox for each one; and they presented them in front of the tabernacle.p>

So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart and take their calves from them back to their stalls.

The cart was coming to the field of Joshua, who was from Beth Shemesh. It paused there near a big stone. Then they cut up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the <sc>Lordsc>.

They loaded the ark of God on a new cart and carried it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart.

You are also commanded to say,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Do this: Take for yourselves wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives. Bring your father and come.

<p class="bodytext">So the sons of Israel did as he said.<n id="1" /> Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed,<n id="2" /> and he gave them provisions for the journey.

and he gave four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their service required, under the authority<n id="1" /> of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

<p class="bodytext">So the men did as instructed.<n id="1" /> They took two cows that had calves and harnessed them to a cart; they also removed their calves to their stalls.

They put the ark of the <sc>Lordsc> on the cart, along with the chest, the gold mice, and the images of the sores.

<p class="poetry">He brings an end to wars throughout the earth;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he shatters<n id="2" /> the bow and breaks<n id="3" /> the spear;p> <p class="poetry">he burns<n id="4" /> the shields with fire.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Certainly<n id="1" /> caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge,p> <p class="poetry">nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin seed.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Certainly caraway seed is beaten with a stick,p> <p class="poetry">and cumin seed with a flail.p>

<p class="poetry">Grain is crushed,p> <p class="poetry">though one certainly does not thresh it forever.p> <p class="poetry">The wheel of one&#8217;s wagon rolls over it,p> <p class="poetry">but his horses do not crush it.p>

But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them,<n id="1" /> and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob&#8217;s spirit revived.

<p class="bodytext">Then Jacob started out<n id="1" /> from Beer Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent along to transport him.

Then take the ark of the <sc>Lordsc> and place it on the cart, and put in a chest beside it the gold objects you are sending to him as a guilt offering. You should then send it on its way.