Numbers 27:12–23

^12aThen Yahweh said to Moses, “Go up to this ^bmountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the sons of Israel.

¹³“So when you have seen it, you too ^awill be gathered to your people, ^bas Aaron your brother ¹was,

¹⁴for in the wilderness of Zin, during the strife of the congregation, ^ayou rebelled against My ¹command ²to treat Me as holy before their eyes at the water.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

Moses Commissions Joshua

¹⁵Then Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,

¹⁶“^aMay Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

¹⁷who ^awill go out ¹and come in before them, and who will lead them out and ²bring them in, so that the congregation of Yahweh will not be ^blike sheep which have no shepherd.”

¹⁸So Yahweh said to Moses, “¹Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man ^ain whom is the Spirit, and ^blay your hand on him;

¹⁹and have him stand before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation, and ^acommission him in their sight.

²⁰“And you shall put some of your ¹splendor on him, in order that all the congregation of the sons of Israel may obey him.

²¹“Moreover, he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him ^aby the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his ¹command they shall go out, and at his ²command they shall come in, both he and the sons of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”

²²So Moses did just as Yahweh commanded him; and he took Joshua and had him stand before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation.

²³Then he laid his hands on him and ^acommissioned him, just as Yahweh had spoken by the hand of Moses.