Moses Requests a Successor

(Deuteronomy 3:23–29)

Then the LORD said to Moses,“Go up this mountain of the Abarim range[fn] and see the land that I have given the Israelites 13 After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was; 14 for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah[fn] in Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin.

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So Moses appealed to the LORD 16 “May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation 17 who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”

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