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And the LORD said unto Moses, "Get thee up into this Mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.
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And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
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For ye rebelled against My commandment in the Desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify Me at the water before their eyes." (That is, the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.)
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And Moses spoke unto the LORD, saying,
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"Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
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who may go out before them and who may go in before them and who may lead them out and who may bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd."
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And the LORD said unto Moses, "Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
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and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation, and give him a charge in their sight.
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And thou shalt put some of thine honor upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
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And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation."
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And Moses did as the LORD commanded him, and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation.
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And he laid his hands upon him and gave him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.