14. When the community quarreled in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight at the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.
15. So Moses appealed to the Lord,
16. “May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the community
17. who will go out before them and come back in before them, and who will bring them out and bring them in, so that the Lord’s community won’t be like sheep without a shepherd.”
18. The Lord replied to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man who has the Spirit in him, and lay your hands on him.
19. Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole community, and commission him in their sight.