Numbers 27:16 CPDV

¹⁴  For you offended me in the desert of Sin at the Contradiction of the multitude; neither were you willing to sanctify me in their sight over the waters. These are the Waters of Contradiction at Kadesh in the desert of Sin.'

¹⁵  Moses answered him:

¹⁶  'May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, provide a man, who may be over this multitude,

¹⁷  and who may be able to exit and enter before them, and who may lead them out or lead them in: lest the people of the Lord be like sheep without a shepherd.'

¹⁸  And the Lord said to him: 'Take Joshua, the son of Nun, a man in whom the Spirit is, and place your hand upon him.