Bible verse

Numbers 27:16

“May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation

Numbers 27:16 · BSB

Numbers 27:16 in context

The verses around it, from Numbers 27.

12 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range 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 in Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin.

15 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.”

18 And the LORD replied to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man with the Spirit in him, and lay your hands on him.

19 Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation, and commission him in their sight.

20 Confer on him some of your authority, so that the whole congregation of Israel will obey him.

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Numbers 27:16 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

ERV

Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

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