7. And to the children of Israel thou shalt speak these things:
8. When a man dieth without a son, his inheritance shall pass to his daughter.
9. If he have no daughter, his brethren shall succeed him.
10. And if he have no brethren, you shall give the inheritance to his father's brethren.
11. But if he have no uncles by the father, the inheritance shall be given to them that are the next akin. And this shall be to the children of Israel sacred by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath commanded Moses.
12. The Lord also said to Moses: Go up into this mountain Abarim, and view from thence the land which I will give to the children of Israel.
13. And when thou shalt have seen it, thou also shalt go to thy people, as thy brother Aaron is gone:
14. Because you offended me in the desert of Sin in the contradiction of the multitude, neither would you sanctify me before them at the waters. These are the waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin.
15. And Moses answered him:
16. May the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh provide a man, that may be over this multitude:
17. And may go out and in before them, and may lead them out, or bring them in: lest the people of the Lord be as sheep without a shepherd.
18. And the Lord said to him: Take Josue the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and put thy hand upon him.
19. And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest and all the multitude: