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There's a story in the OT about a guy (Uzzah) who touched the thing and electrocuted himself and died (it was about to fall off a wagon and he tried to steady it):

2SA 6:2 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims......
2SA 6:6 And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.
2SA 6:7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
2SA 6:8 And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.

Now, when you read something like "the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims" you should comprehend that a wooden box with highly conductive handles is basically a primitive capacitor such as was called a Leyden bottle around the time that Benjamin Franklin and others started playing with such things, and the thing you see between those handles ("cherebim") is an electrical arc.

ALL ancient religious practices were intended to communicate directly with the spirit world, and they all involved static electricity and trance states; these included prophecy, oracles, familiar spirits, idolatry, and electrostatic devices including the ark, the pyramids, and things like the ark which Etrurians called "ka - mer" or "spirit catcher".

If you read closely enough, you will note that God works entirely within the laws of physics. If you want violations of natural laws, particualy the basic laws of mathematics and probability, you need to be talking to the evolutionites; they specialize in that kind of thing.