Numbers 27:12-23

Modern English Version

Joshua to Succeed Moses

¹² The Lord said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel. ¹³ When you have seen it, you also will be gathered to your people as Aaron your brother was gathered. ¹⁴ For you rebelled against My commandment in the Wilderness of Zin when the congregation argued against Me. You did not show My holiness at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah in Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.)

¹⁵ Moses spoke to the Lord, saying, ¹⁶ “Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the assembly ¹⁷ who will go out before them, and who will go in before them, and who will lead them out, and who will bring them in, so the assembly of the Lord will not be like sheep who do not have a shepherd.”

¹⁸ The Lord said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him, ¹⁹ and cause him to stand before Eleazar the priest and before all the assembly, and command in their sight. ²⁰ You will put some of your majesty on him, in order that all the assembly of the children of Israel will listen. ²¹ He will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will ask for him about the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his word will they go out, and at his word they will come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the assembly.”

²² Moses did as the Lord commanded him, and he took Joshua, and he caused him to stand before Eleazar the priest and before all the assembly. ²³ And he laid his hands on him and commanded him as the Lord spoke by the hand of Moses.