Numbers 33:38

38 Aaron the priest obeyed the Lord and went up Mount Hor. There he died on the first day of the fifth month in the fortieth year after the Israelites left 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 in the Desert of Zin.

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

38 Aaron the priest obeyed the Lord and went up Mount Hor. There he died on the first day of the fifth month in the fortieth year after the Israelites left Egypt.

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

40 The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the southern area of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.