11. They put the ark of the Lord and the box containing the gold mice and the models of their hemorrhoids on the cart.
12. The cows went straight up the road to Beth Shemesh. Continually mooing, they stayed on the road and didn’t turn right or left. The rulers of the Philistines followed them to the border of Beth Shemesh.
13. The people of Beth Shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley. When they looked up and saw the ark, they were overjoyed.
14. The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh and stopped there by a large rock. The people chopped up the wood of the cart and sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.
15. (The Levites had already taken down ⌊from the cart⌋ the ark of the Lord and the box which contained the gold objects and put them on the large rock.) The people of Beth Shemesh presented burnt offerings and sacrifices to the Lord that day.