Joshua commissioned to succeed Moses
Numbers 26–27; Deuteronomy 31:1–8
After a second census showed the old generation was gone, God told Moses to lay his hands on Joshua as Israel's next leader.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.”
Numbers 27:18 (World English Bible)
The new census counted 601,730 men, almost the same as forty years earlier, but only Caleb and Joshua remained from the first count. Moses asked God for a shepherd for the people, and God named Joshua, “a man in whom is the Spirit.”
Places
Dating notes
Plains of Moab, 40th year (Ussher, 1452 BC).