15 “And Aaron and his sons must finish covering the holy place+ and all the utensils+ of the holy place when the camp is departing, and after that the sons of Koʹhath will come in to carry them,+ but they must not touch+ the holy place so that they have to die. These things are the load of the sons of Koʹhath in the tent of meeting.+

9 Then Moses wrote this law+ and gave it to the priests the sons of Leʹvi,+ the carriers of the ark of Jehovah’s covenant,+ and to all the older men of Israel.

2 It was then that David said: “No one is to carry the ark of the [true] God but the Levites, for they are the ones whom Jehovah has chosen to carry the ark of Jehovah*+ and to minister+ to him to time indefinite.”