Numbers 27:16-19 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

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.

19. And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest and the entire multitude.

Numbers 27