Numbers 27:12–23

¹²The Lord also said to Moses: Go up into this mountain Abarim, and view from thence the land which I will give to the children of Israel.

¹³And when thou shalt have seen it, thou also shalt go to thy people, as thy brother Aaron is gone:

¹⁴Because you offended me in the desert of Sin in the contradiction of the multitude, neither would you sanctify me before them at the waters. These are the waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin.

¹⁵And Moses answered him:

¹⁶May the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh provide a man, that may be over this multitude:

¹⁷And may go out and in before them, and may lead them out, or bring them in: lest the people of the Lord be as sheep without a shepherd.

¹⁸And the Lord said to him: take Josue the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and put thy hand upon him.

¹⁹And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest and all the multitude:

²⁰And thou shalt give him precepts in the sight of all, and part of thy glory, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may hear him.

²¹If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the priest shall consult the Lord for him. He and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest of the multitude shall go out and go in at his word.

²²Moses did as the Lord had commanded. And, when he had taken Josue, he set him before Eleazar the priest, and all the assembly of the people,

²³And laying his hands on his head, he repeated all things that the Lord had commanded.