His own coast — Or Border, that is, the way that leadeth to his coast, or border, namely, the country to which it belongs. Then he, &c. — Which they might well conclude, if such heifers should against their common use, and natural instinct, go into a strange path, and regularly and constantly proceed in it, without any man's conduct.
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1 Samuel 6:9
9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.