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If he did, its nowhere stated in the Bible. Rather, the Bible clearly states that anyone who is not a priest will die if they touch the ark. In 2nd Samuel 6 and 1st Chronicles 13 the story is told of how when David decided to have the ark brought back from Gibeah to Jerusalem, and contrary to the Torah, David had the ark placed on a cart (rather than carried by the priests using the staves as the Law says in Exodus 25 and Numbers 7:9), the oxen shook the cart, and a man by the name of Uzzah touched it and died.