<p class="poetry">Egypt is like a beautiful young cow.p> <p class="poetry">But northern armies will attack her like swarms of stinging flies.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.&#8221;

<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">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>

<t /><p class="poetry">Ephraim was a well-trained heifer who loved to thresh grain;p> <p class="poetry">I myself put a fine yoke<n id="1" />on her neck.p> <p class="poetry">I will harness Ephraim.p> <p class="poetry">Let Judah plow!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Let Jacob break up<n id="3" /> the unplowed ground for himself!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.

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.