Numbers 16:22

¹⁶“Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

¹⁰in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

¹A revelation of the LORD’s word concerning Israel: The LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

⁹Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

⁷and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

¹⁸So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

²³Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked? ²⁴What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it? ²⁵May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

⁵Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

¹⁷David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”

¹⁶For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.