Joshua 3:2-6

MLV(i) 2 And it happened after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp, 3 and they commanded the people, saying, When you* see the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your* God and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you* will move from your* place and go after it.
4 Yet there will be a space between you* and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near to it, that you* may know the way by which you* must go, for you* have not passed this way yesterday and the day before.
5 And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow Jehovah will do wonders among you*. 6 And Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.