Numbers 27:12-22

12Then Adonai said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and look at the land that I have given to Bnei-Yisrael.

13When you have seen it, you will be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother was gathered.

14For in the wilderness of Zin during the strife of the community, you both rebelled against My Word instead of honoring Me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These were the waters of Meribah at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

15Moses spoke to Adonai saying,

16“May Adonai, God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the community

17to go out and come in before them, who will lead them out and bring them out so that the people of Adonai will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”

18Adonai said to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the Ruach, and lay your hand on him.

19You will have him stand before Eleazar the kohen and the entire assembly and commission him before their eyes.

20Give to him some of your authority so that the whole community of Bnei-Yisrael will obey him.

21He will stand before Eleazar the kohen, who will pray and obtain judgments for him by Urim and before Adonai. At his mouth, they will go out and at his mouth they will come in, he and all the community of Bnei-Yisrael with him.”

22Moses did as Adonai commanded him. He took Joshua, stood him before Eleazar the kohen and all the entire assembly.