congregation

Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man ouer the Congregation,

Which may goe out before them, and which may goe in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in, that the Congregation of the LORD bee not as sheepe which haue no shepheard.

And set him before Eleazar the Priest, and before all the Congregation: and giue him a charge in their sight.

And thou shalt put some of thine honour vpon him, that all the Congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.

And he shall stand before Eleazar the Priest, who shall aske counsell for him, after the iudgement of Urim before the LORD: at his word shal they goe out, and at his word they shal come in, both he, and al the children of Israel with him, euen all the Congregation.

1611 marginal noteExod.28.30.

And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he tooke Ioshua and set him before Eleazar the Priest, and before all the Congregation.

And they brought the captiues, and the pray, and the spoile vnto Moses and Eleazar the Priest, and vnto the Congregation of the children of Israel, vnto the campe at the plaines of Moab, which are by Iordan neere Iericho.

¶ And Moses and Eleazar the Priest, and all the Princes of the Congregation went foorth to meete them without the campe.

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsell of Balaam, to commit trespasse against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the Congregation of the LORD.

1611 marginal noteChap. 25.2.

1611 marginal note2.Pet. 2.15.

Take the summe of the pray, that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou and Eleazar the Priest, and the chiefe fathers of the Congregation:

1611 marginal noteHebr. of the captiuity