1 Chronicles 15:12-15 and said unto them, Ye, are the chiefs of the fathers of the Levites,––Hallow yourselves, ye and your brethren, so shall ye bring up the ark of Yahweh––God of Israel, into the place I have prepared for it.

Rotherham⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹² and said unto them, Ye, are the chiefs of the fathers of the Levites,––Hallow yourselves, ye and your brethren, so shall ye bring up the ark of Yahweh––God of Israel, into [the place] I have prepared for it. ¹³ Because, at the first, ye, did not [bring it], Yahweh our God brake forth against us, because we sought him not in the appointed way. ¹⁴ So the priests and the Levites hallowed themselves,––to bring up the ark of Yahweh, God of Israel. ¹⁵ And the sons of the Levites bare the ark of God, just as Moses commanded, according to the word of Yahweh,––on their shoulder, with the staves upon them.