Numbers 4:15

15And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that athe sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, bbut they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.

Deuteronomy 31:9

The Reading of the Law

9Then Moses cwrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, dwho carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel.

Joshua 3:6

6And Joshua said to the priests, e“Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on before the people.” So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.

Joshua 3:14-15

14So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing fthe ark of the covenant before the people, 15and as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and gthe feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (now hthe Jordan overflows all its banks ithroughout the time of harvest),

Joshua 4:9

9And Joshua set up
Or  Joshua had set up
twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, kin the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.

Joshua 6:6

6So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord.”

1 Chronicles 15:2

2Then David said that no one but the Levites may carry lthe ark of God, for the Lord had chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister to him forever.

1 Chronicles 15:11-15

11Then David summoned the priests mZadok and nAbiathar, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab, 12and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites. oConsecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, pto the place that I have prepared for it. 13 qBecause you did not carry it the first time, the Lord our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule.” 14So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel. 15And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders rwith the poles, sas Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord.

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