¹⁵ And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders ^(A)with the poles, ^(B)as Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord.

¹⁵ And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that ^(A)the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, ^(B)but 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.

⁹ But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because they were charged with ^(A)the service of the holy things that ^(B)had to be carried on the shoulder.

⁹ And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen ^(A)from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside. And they are^[a] there to this day.

^8 (A)And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before ^(B)the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.

⁵ When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down ^(A)the veil of the screen and cover ^(B)the ark of the testimony with it. ⁶ Then they shall put on it a covering of goatskin^[a] and spread on top of that a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its ^(C)poles.

²⁰ He ^(A)took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark and set the mercy seat above on the ark.

³ And he cast for it four rings of gold for its ^(A)four feet, two rings on its one side and two rings on its other side. ⁴ And he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold ⁵ and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.

¹² You shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its ^(A)four feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. ¹³ You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. ¹⁴ And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them. ¹⁵ The ^(B)poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it.