New Revised Standard Version
And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
on poles that rested on their shoulders, just as the LORD had told Moses to do.

New American Bible
The Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sons of Levi took the ark of God as Moses had commanded, according to the word of the Lord, upon their shoulders, with the staves.

And the sons of Levi took the ark of God as Moses had commanded, according to the word of the Lord, upon their shoulders, with the staves.

bare the ark

Exodus 25:12,12-15 And four golden rings, which thou shalt put at the four corners of the ark: let two rings be on the one side, and two on the other. . . .

Exodus 37:3-5 Casting four rings of gold at the four corners thereof: two rings in one side, and two in the other. . . .

Exodus 40:20 And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above.

Numbers 4:6,15 And shall cover it again with a cover of violet skins, and shall spread over it a cloth all of violet, and shall put in the bars. . . .

Numbers 7:9 But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons or oxen: because they serve in the sanctuary and carry their burdens upon their own shoulders.

1 Kings 8:8 And whereas the staves stood out, the ends of them were seen without, in the sanctuary before the oracle, but were not seen farther out, and there they have been unto this day.

2 Chronicles 5:9 Now the ends of the staves wherewith the ark was carried, because they were some thing longer, were seen before the oracle: but if a man were a little outward, he could not see them. So the ark has been there unto this day.