Numbers 27:12–21

¹²And Jehovah saith unto Moses, ‘Go up unto this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the sons of Israel; ¹³and thou hast seen it, and thou hast been gathered unto thy people, also thou, as Aaron thy brother hath been gathered, ¹⁴because ye provoked My mouth in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the company—to sanctify Me at the waters before their eyes;’ they are waters of Meribah, in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin.

¹⁵And Moses speaketh unto Jehovah, saying, ¹⁶‘Jehovah—God of the spirits of all flesh—appoint a man over the company, ¹⁷who goeth out before them, and who cometh in before them, and who taketh them out, and who bringeth them in, and the company of Jehovah is not as sheep which have no shepherd.’ ¹⁸And Jehovah saith unto Moses, ‘Take to thee Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and thou hast laid thine hand upon him, ¹⁹and hast caused him to stand before Eleazar the priest, and before all the company, and hast charged him before their eyes, ²⁰and hast put of thine honour upon him, so that all the company of the sons of Israel do hearken.

²¹‘And before Eleazar the priest he standeth, and he hath asked for him by the judgment of the Lights before Jehovah; at His word they go out, and at His word they come in; he, and all the sons of Israel with him, even all the company.’