Numbers 33:38

38 The priest Aaron went up Mount Hor when the LORD commanded him to. That's where he died. It happened on the first day of the fifth month. It was the 40th year after the people of Israel came out 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 left Ezion Geber and camped at Kadesh. Kadesh was in the Desert of Zin.

37 They left Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor. It was on the border of Edom.

38 The priest Aaron went up Mount Hor when the LORD commanded him to. That's where he died. It happened on the first day of the fifth month. It was the 40th year after the people of Israel came out of Egypt.

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

40 The Canaanite king of Arad lived in the Negev Desert in Canaan. He heard that the people of Israel were coming.