10. if he has no brothers, you shall give his heritage to his father’s brothers;
11. if his father had no brothers, you shall give his heritage to his nearest relative in his clan, who shall then take possession of it.This will be the statutory procedure for the Israelites, as the Lord commanded Moses.
12. The Lord said to Moses: Go up into this mountain of the Abarim range and view the land that I have given to the Israelites.
13. When you have viewed it, you will be gathered to your people, as was Aaron your brother.
14. For in the rebellion of the community in the wilderness of Zin you both rebelled against my order to acknowledge my holiness before them by means of the water. (These were the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
15. Then Moses said to the Lord,
16. “May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all humanity, set over the community someone
17. who will be their leader in battle and who will lead them out and bring them in, that the Lord’s community may not be like sheep without a shepherd.”
18. And the Lord replied to Moses: Take Joshua, son of Nun, a man of spirit, and lay your hand upon him.