Joshua 3:2-4

World English Bible

² After three days, the officers went through the middle of the camp; ³ and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, and the Levitical priests bearing it, then leave your place and follow it. ⁴ Yet there shall be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits^[a] by measure—don’t come closer to it—that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before.”