¹² Then the cows headed straight for the road to Beth Shemesh, and went along the ^(A)highway, lowing as they went, and did not turn aside to the right hand or the left. And the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.

¹⁹ So the children of Israel said to him, “We will go by the Highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, ^(A)then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more.”