Numbers 27

2and standing before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the chiefs, and before the whole congregation, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, they said,

3Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among the congregation which conspired against the Lord, in the assembly of Kore. Because he died for his own sin,

4and had no sons, let not the name of our father be blotted out from among his community. Seeing he hath not a son, give us a possession among our father’s brethren.

5Whereupon Moses laid their case before the Lord.

7The daughters of Salpaad have spoken right. Thou shalt give them the possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers, and vest in them their father’s lot.

8And thou shalt say to the children of Israel, If any man die, and hath no son, you shall vest his inheritance in his daughter;

9and if he hath no daughter, you shall give his inheritance to his brother;

10and if he hath no brothers, you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brother;

11and if there be no brothers of his father, you shall give the inheritance to one of his house, who is the nearest of kin to him, of his tribe, that he may inherit what belonged to him. And this shall be to the children of Israel a rule of decision, as the Lord commanded Moses.

13And when thou hast seen it, thou shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered on mount Or,

14because you transgressed my command in the wilderness of Sin. When the people resisted the hallowing of me, you did not hallow me at the water before them. (This alludeth to the water of strife at Kades in the wilderness.)

16Let the Lord, the God of the spirits, and of all flesh, look out a man to be set over this congregation, who shall go out before them, and come in before them;

17and who shall lead them out, and bring them in; so that the congregation of the Lord may not be like a flock which hath no shepherd.

18Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Take as thy associate Joshua, son of Naue, a man who hath a spirit in him, and thou shalt lay thy hands on him,

19and set him before Eleazar, the priest, and give him a charge before the whole congregation, and give a charge before them concerning him.

20And thou shalt put some of thy glory on him, that the children of Israel may hearken to him.

21And he shall stand before Eleazar, the priest, and they shall ask him the determination of the manifestations before the Lord. And at his command they shall go out; and at his command he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation, shall come in.

23and laid his hands on him, and made him his associate, as the Lord commanded Moses.