Numbers 33:38 — Meaning and Application

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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

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And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which {is} Kadesh.

And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.

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 {was} an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.

And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

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Numbers 33:1

"These {are} the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron."

Numbers 33:2

"And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these {are} their journeys according to their goings out."

Numbers 33:3

"And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians."

Numbers 33:4

"For the Egyptians buried all {their} firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments."

Numbers 33:5

"And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth."

Numbers 33:6

"And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which {is} in the edge of the wilderness."

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