Numbers 33:37-39

37 And they set out from ¹Kadesh and camped at ²Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.

38 And Aaron the priest went up ³Mount Hor at the command of the LORD and died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.

39 And Aaron was ⁴ 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.

Numbers 33:37-39 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 33

This chapter gives an account of the journeys of the people of Israel, from their first coming out of Egypt, to their arrival in the plains of Moab by Jordan, and the names of the various stations where they rested are given, Nu 33:1-49 and they are ordered, when they passed over Jordan, to drive out the Canaanites, destroy their idols, and divide the land among their families in their several tribes, Nu 33:50-54 or otherwise it is threatened the Canaanites should be troublesome and vexatious to them, even those that remained; and it might be expected God would do to the Israelites as he thought to do to those nations, Nu 33:55,56.

Cross References

• 1. Numbers 20:1, 14, 22
• 2. Numbers 20:23; Numbers 21:4; Numbers 34:7, 8
• 3. Numbers 20:25-28; Deuteronomy 32:50; [Deuteronomy 10:6]
• 4. [Exodus 7:7]