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Where did Aaron die?
Numbers locates Aaron's death on Mount Hor, while Deuteronomy assigns his death and burial to Mosera.
- Textual conflict
- Interpretive tension
- The passages pull in different directions, but the conflict depends on how their wording, scope, or narrative context is read.
- Importance
- Supporting
- A supporting event, teaching, or biographical claim.
Aaron's one death and Eleazar's succession are located at Mount Hor and Mosera without an established relationship between the places.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Aaron dies on the summit of Mount Hor
And Moses did as the Lord commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
Numbers 20:27-28
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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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.
Numbers 33:38
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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