Numbers 33:38

38 Aaron the priest ascended Mount Hor at the LORD's command, and he died there in the fortieth year on the first day of the fifth month after the Israelites left the land of Egypt.

Numbers 33:38 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 33:38

And Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor, at the
commandment of the Lord
Delivered to Moses:

and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were
come out of Egypt;
not being suffered to go with them into the land of Canaan, because of his sin of unbelief at Kadesh, the last place from whence they came: in Mount Hor he died,

on the first day of the fifth month;
the month Ab, answering to part of July and part of August; so that he lived but four months after his sister Miriam; see ( Numbers 20:1 Numbers 20:25-29 ) .

Numbers 33:38 In-Context

36 They marched from Ezion-geber and camped in the Zin desert (that is, Kadesh).

37 They marched from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.

38 Aaron the priest ascended Mount Hor at the LORD's command, and he died there in the fortieth year on the first day of the fifth month after the Israelites left the land of Egypt.

39 Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.

40 The Canaanite king of Arad, who ruled in the arid southern plain in the land of Canaan, heard of the Israelites' coming.

Footnotes

• [a]. July–August, probably Av