A moment in scripture
Numbers 27:17
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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.
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The surrounding passage
- Numbers 27:15
And Moses spake unto the Lord, saying,
- Numbers 27:16
Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
- 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;
- Numbers 27:19
And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.