Numbers 33:38
38
At the LORD’s command Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor, where he died on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt.
Read Numbers 33:38 Using Other Translations
And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
And Aaron the priest went up Mount 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.
While they were at the foot of Mount Hor, Aaron the priest was directed by the LORD to go up the mountain, and there he died. This happened in midsummer, on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year after Israel’s departure from Egypt.
What does Numbers 33:38 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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 ) .
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