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.
19. Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole community, and commission him in their sight.
20. Invest him with some of your own power, that the whole Israelite community may obey him.
21. He shall present himself to Eleazar the priest, who will seek for him the decision of the Urim in the Lord’s presence; and as it directs, Joshua, all the Israelites with him, and the whole community will go out for battle; and as it directs, they will come in.
22. Moses did as the Lord had commanded him. Taking Joshua and having him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole community,
23. he laid his hands on him and commissioned him, as the Lord had directed through Moses.