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Numbers 27:16

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Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

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  1. Numbers 27:14

    For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.

  2. Numbers 27:15

    And Moses spake unto the Lord, saying,

  3. Numbers 27:17

    Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd.

  4. Numbers 27:18

    And the Lord said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;

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