¹⁰ There was nothing in the ark but the two stone tablets that Moses had put inside at Horeb on which Yahweh had made^[a] a covenant with the Israelites^[b] when they went out from Egypt. ¹¹ And when the priests came out of the sanctuary (for all the priests who were present^[c] sanctified themselves without keeping their divisions) ¹² and all the Levitical singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, their sons, their brothers, dressed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and stringed instruments—they were standing to the east of the altar. And with them outside were one hundred and twenty priests who were trumpet blowers.