Numbers 27:12-23 ▼

12 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: Get thee vp into this mount Abarim, and beholde the lande whiche I haue geuen vnto the chyldren of Israel:

13 And whe thou hast seene it, thou shalt be gathered vnto thy people also, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.

14 For ye were disobedient vnto my mouth in the desert of Zin, in the stryfe of the congregation, neither dyd ye sanctifie me in the waters before their eyes: That is, the water of stryfe in Cades in the wyldernesse of Zin.

15 And Moyses spake vnto the Lorde, saying:

16 Let the Lord God of the spirites of all fleshe set a man ouer ye congregation,

17 Which may go out & in before them, and leade them out and in, that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheepe which haue not a sheephearde.

18 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: Take thee Iosuah the sonne of Nun, a man in whom is the spirite, and put thyne handes vpon hym,

19 And set hym before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation: and geue hym a charge in their sight.

20 And put of thy prayse vpon him, that all the companie of the children of Israel may be obedient.

21 And he shall stande before Eleazar the priest, which shall aske counsell for hym after the iudgement of Urim, before the Lorde: And accordyng vnto his worde, shall they go out and in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, and all the congregation.

22 And Moyses dyd as the Lorde commaunded him: and he toke Iosuah, and set hym before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:

23 And put his handes vpon hym, and gaue hym a charge, as the Lorde commaunded through the hand of Moyses.