9 In turn he said to him: “Take for me* a three-year-old heifer and a three-year-old she-goat and a three-year-old ram and a turtledove and a young pigeon.”+

7 And now take and make a new wagon,+ and two cows that are giving suck, upon which no yoke+ has come up, and YOU must hitch the cows to the wagon, and YOU must make their young ones* go back home from following them.

2 But Samuel said: “How can I go? Once Saul has heard of it he will certainly kill me.”+ And Jehovah went on to say: “A young cow of the herd you should take with you,* and you must say, ‘To sacrifice to Jehovah is why I have come.’+