Lay it upon the cart; which God winked at in them, both because they were ignorant of God's law to the contrary, and because they had no Levites to carry it upon their shoulders. In a coffer by the side thereof; for they durst not presume to open the ark, to put them within it.
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1 Samuel 6:8
8 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.