³ and they commanded the people: “When you see the Levitical priests carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God you must set out from your place and go after it. ⁴ But there will be a distance between you and it of about two thousand cubits in measurement.^[a] Do not come near it, so that you may know the way that you must go, for you have not passed on this way before.”^{[b] 5} And Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, because tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders in your midst.”