12 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go up to this mountain of Abarim, and see the land that I have given to the Israelites.
13 When you see it, you will be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother was gathered,
14 because you rebelled against my word in the desert of Zin when the community quarreled regarding my holiness at the waters.” (These are the waters of Meribah-Kadesh in the desert of Zin.)
15 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
16 “Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the community
17 who will go out before them and will come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so the community of Yahweh will not be like a flock that does not have a shepherd.”
18 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and place your hand on him.