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OET-RV by cross-referenced section NUM 27:12

NUM 27:12–27:23 ©

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Yehoshua succeeds Mosheh

Num 27:12–23

Deu 31:1–8

12Then Yahweh told Mosheh (Moses), “Go up Mt. Avarim and look at the land that I’ve given to the Israelis,[ref] 13and then you’ll die and join your ancestors just like your brother Aharon did. 14That’s because back in the Tsin wilderness when the people complained about water, you two rebelled against my command and failed to respect my holiness in front of them. That was when you struck the rock at Meribah near Kadesh in the Tsin wilderness.”

15Then Mosheh requested Yahweh, 16Yahweh, you are the god who directs the spirits of all humankind, so please appoint a new leader for the Israeli people 17who will stand in front of them and lead them out and bring them in so they won’t be like sheep without a shepherd.[ref]

18Then Yahweh told Mosheh, “Get Nun’s son Yehoshua (Joshua), a man who has my spirit in him, and place your hands on him to indicate the transfer of leadership.[ref] 19Stand him in front of the priest Eleazar and all the assembly, and commission him as they watch. 20Give him some of your authority so that all the Israeli people can hear it. 21When he needs guidance, he must stand in front of the priest Eleazar and ask for Yahweh’s decision to be given via the Urim. Then Yehoshua and all the people will go in or come out as per Yahweh’s instructions.”[ref] 22So Mosheh did what Yahweh had ordered him to, and he presented Yehoshua to the priest Eleazar and to the entire community. 23Mosheh placed his hands on Yehoshua and commissioned him, just has Yahweh had said he should.


31Then Mosheh (Moses) also told the Israelis, 2“I’m already a hundred and twenty and no longer able to walk around easily, plus Yahweh has told me that I won’t be able to cross the Yarden (Jordan) river.[ref] 3Your god Yahweh will go ahead of you and destroy those peoples right in front of your eyes, then you’ll be able to take over that land. Yahweh has said that it’s Yehoshua (Joshua) who will lead you in there. 4Then Yahweh will do the same to those peoples as he did to the Amorite kings Sihon and Og, when he destroyed them and their people.[ref] 5Yahweh will enable you to conquer those peoples, but you must do exactly what I’ve instructed you, to them. 6Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of those people, because it’s your god Yahweh who’ll go with you—he won’t leave you or abandon you.

7Then Mosheh called Yehoshua and told him in front of all Yisrael, “Be strong and courageous, because you’ll go with these people into the land that Yahweh had promised to their ancestors to give to them, and you’ll enable them to take it as their inheritance. 8Yahweh will go ahead of you and he’ll be with you. He won’t fail or abandon you—you mustn’t be afraid or concerned.[ref]


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Deu 3:23-27:

23“At that time, I pleaded with Yahweh, 24‘My master Yahweh, you’ve begun to show your servant your greatness and your power. What other god in heaven or on earth is there that does works as great and powerful as what you’ve done? 25Please let me cross the Yarden river and see the good land that’s on the other side—that good hill country, and the Lebanon region.’

26But Yahweh was angry at me because of what your parents had done, and he wouldn’t listen to me. Instead, Yahweh told me, ‘Enough from you—don’t talk to me about that again! 27Go up to the top of Mt. Pisgah and look out towards the west and the north and the south and the east. Yes, look with your eyes, because you won’t be crossing this river.

32:48-52:

48That same day, Yahweh told Mosheh,[ref] 49“Go to Mt. Nebo (a mountain in the Abarim range in Moav, across from Yeriho). Climb up and you will see the land of Canaan, which I’m giving to the Israelis to take possession of. 50Then you’ll die on that mountain that you are going up on, and you’ll join your ancestors (just like your brother Aharon died on Mt. Hor and joined his ancestors). 51That’s because you were unfaithful to me among the Israelis at the Meribah springs in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Tsin, because you didn’t regard me as holy in front of the Israelis. 52So you’ll see the land in front of you, but you won’t enter that land that I’m giving to the Israelis.


32:48-52: Num 27:12-14; Deu 3:23-27.

1Ki 22:17:

17Well,” he said, “I saw all Yisrael scattered into the hills like sheep without a shepherd, and Yahweh said that they have no leaders so they should all return peacefully to their homes.”[ref]


22:17: Num 27:17; Mat 9:36; Mrk 6:34.

Eze 34:5:

5Then they were scattered without a shepherd, and after they were scattered, they became food for all the wild animals in the countryside.[ref]


34:5: Num 27:17; 1Ki 22:17; Mat 9:36; Mrk 6:34.

Mat 9:36:

36[ref]When he saw the crowds, he felt for them because they were tired and stressed like sheep with no shepherd.


9:36: Num 27:17; 1Ki 22:17; 2Ch 18:16; Eze 34:5; Mrk 6:34.

Mrk 6:34:

34[ref]So when Yeshua got out of the boat, he saw a big crowd and felt sorry for them because they seemed like sheep without a shepherd, so he started teaching them many things.


6:34: Num 27:17; 1Ki 22:17; 2Ch 18:16; Eze 34:5; Mat 9:36.

Exo 24:13:

13So Mosheh and his assistant Yehoshua set off, and Mosheh climbed up God’s mountain.

Exo 28:30:

30Then place the ‘Urim’ and the ‘Tummim’[fn] in the sacred pouch so they’ll be over Aharon’s heart when he goes in before Yahweh, thus Aharon will continually bear the decisions of the Israelis over his heart before Yahweh.[ref]


28:30 These two objects appear abruptly in the text—they haven’t been described previously—in fact, they’re not described anywhere, so we don’t really know much about them except that it seems they were used somehow to indicate Yahweh’s decision on important matters. Although we presume that Mosheh must have already been familiar with them, sadly we’re unable to translate these two Hebrew words, because we’re not.


28:30: Num 27:21; Deu 33:8; Ezr 2:63; Neh 7:65.

1Sam 14:41:

41Then Sha’ul asked Yisrael’s god Yahweh, “Show us the truth.” And Sha’ul and Yonatan were selected—not the people.[ref]


14:41: Num 27:21; 1Sam 28:6.

28:6:

6He asked Yahweh for direction, but Yahweh didn’t answer him either through a dream, nor by use of the sacred pouch, nor through any prophet.[ref]


28:6: Num 27:21.

Num 20:12:

12Then Yahweh scolded Mosheh and Aharon, “Because you two publicly demonstrated that you didn’t believe that what I say is absolute truth, therefore you two won’t lead this community into the land that I’ve given them.”

Num 21:21-35:

21Then Yisrael sent messengers to the Amorite King Sihon, 22“Let us pass through your country. We won’t turn off into any field or vineyard. We won’t take water from any well. We’ll stay on the king’s highway until we’ve exited at your northern border.” 23However King Sihon refused them permission, then he took his whole army into the wilderness to meet Yisrael, and they attacked them at Yahats village. 24Nevertheless, Yisrael defeated them in battle and took possession of his land from the Arnon river up as far as Yabok where the Ammonites’ border was well fortified. 25So Yisrael took those Amorite cities including Hesbon and the surrounding villages, and started living in them. 26(Heshbon was where the Amorite King Sihon lived, as he’d previously fought against the former king of Moav and captured all his land down as far as the Arnon river. 27That was why the poets say,

“Come to Heshbon—let it be rebuilt.

≈ Let King Sihon’s city be established

28because fire went out from Hesbon,

≈ flame from Sihon’s city.

It consumed Ar in Moav,

and the citizens on Arnon’s hilltops.[ref]

29Moav, you won’t end well.

≈ Kemosh’s people have perished.

He’s made his sons into fugitives,

≈ and given his daughters over to captivity

by the Amorite King Sihon.

30We’ve overpowered them.

Hesbon has perished as far as Divon

≈ and shattered Nofah as far as Medeva.)

31So the Israelis lived in the Amorite region 32and Mosheh sent some men to spy out Yazer, and the captured its villages and drove the Amorites out from there.

33Then they turned and went up the road towards Bashan, but Bashan’s King Og came out with his army to meet them, and attacked them at Edrei. 34Yahweh said to Mosheh, “Don’t be afraid of him because I’ve given him and all his people and his land to you, and you’ll be able to do to him what you did to the Amorite King Sihon who lived at Heshbon.” 35So they overcame King Og and his sons and all his people until there were no remaining survivors, then they took possession of their land.


21:28-29: Jer 48:45-46.

Josh 1:5:

5No man will be able to challenge your leadership as long as you live—I’ll be with you just as I was with Mosheh—I won’t fail you or abandon you.[ref]


1:5: Deu 31:6,8; Heb 13:5.

Heb 13:5:

5Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said:[ref]

“I’ll never leave you;

Indeed I’ll never abandon you.”


13:5: Deu 31:6,8; Jam 1:5.

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