And as far as I know, the ark wasn't impaired by Uzzah's hand touching it. The ancient Hebrews still kept using it and didn't throw it away or asked their god to give them a new one because Uzzah, that stupid wretch, left his fingerprints on the gold plating since he forgot to put on gloves.
Furthermore, what I don't understand is that this omnipotent god, who allegedly created this vast universe with all the planets, suns, galaxies, galaxy-clusters, superclusters, etc. gets worked up about something petty like a guy inadvertently touching some wooden artifact. I mean what the...
He was lucky his head didn't melt. I saw a movie about that once so it must be true.
Actually, God didn't get worked up at all to kill Uzzah. He did, however, give instructions to build His Ark in such a way that it was a capacitor.
If you duplicate the instructions, your simulated Ark of the Covenant can store quite a hefty electric charge.
Hey!
I didn't make the rule!