Joshua 3:2-6

Thomson(i) 2 And after three days the officers went through the camp, 3 and gave a charge to the people, saying, When you see the Ark of the covenant of the Lord our God, and our priests, and the Levites carrying it, you shall remove from your places, and march after it. 4 But let there be a considerable distance between you and it. You shall keep at the distance of about two thousand cubits. You must not come near it, that you may know the way you are to march; for you have never heretofore gone this way. 5 Then Joshua said to the people, Purify yourselves against to-morrow; for to-morrow the Lord will do wonders among you. 6 And when Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and march before the people; and the priests had taken up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and were marching before the people,