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  "kind": "event",
  "id": "aaron-dies",
  "era": "exodus-wilderness",
  "order": 71,
  "title": "Aaron dies on Mount Hor",
  "group": "transjordan",
  "date": {
    "kind": "approximate",
    "label": "c. 1407 BC · Year 40, fifth month, day 1 · Aaron aged 123 (Numbers 33:38–39)",
    "earliest": -1407,
    "latest": -1407
  },
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  "pinConfidence": "Proposed site",
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  "summary": "At Mount Hor, on the border of Edom, Moses takes Aaron and his son Eleazar up the mountain, removes Aaron’s priestly garments and puts them on Eleazar. Aaron dies there on the mountaintop, and all Israel mourns him for thirty days.",
  "context": "This happens during the journey around Edom described at the previous stop.",
  "question": "What does the handing over of Aaron’s garments say about the priesthood?",
  "locationNote": "Mount Hor is traditionally Jebel Harun near Petra; OpenBible favors a site in the northern Negev. Deuteronomy 10:6 names Moserah as the place of Aaron’s death.",
  "passages": [
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 20:22–29",
      "range": [
        4020022,
        4020029
      ],
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2020%3A22%E2%80%9329&version=BSB",
      "availability": "bundled",
      "verses": [
        {
          "book": "Numbers",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 22,
          "text": "After they had set out from Kadesh, the whole congregation of Israel came to Mount Hor."
        },
        {
          "book": "Numbers",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 23,
          "text": "And at Mount Hor, near the border of the land of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,"
        },
        {
          "book": "Numbers",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 24,
          "text": "“Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah."
        },
        {
          "book": "Numbers",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 25,
          "text": "Take Aaron and his son Eleazar and bring them up Mount Hor."
        },
        {
          "book": "Numbers",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 26,
          "text": "Remove Aaron’s priestly garments and put them on his son Eleazar. Aaron will be gathered to his people and will die there.”"
        },
        {
          "book": "Numbers",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 27,
          "text": "So Moses did as the LORD had commanded, and they climbed Mount Hor in the sight of the whole congregation."
        },
        {
          "book": "Numbers",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 28,
          "text": "After Moses had removed Aaron’s garments and put them on his son Eleazar, Aaron died there on top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain."
        },
        {
          "book": "Numbers",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 29,
          "text": "When the whole congregation saw that Aaron had died, the entire house of Israel mourned for him thirty days."
        }
      ]
    }
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    {
      "range": [
        5010006,
        5010006
      ],
      "kind": "recollection",
      "note": "Moses notes Aaron’s death and Eleazar’s succession.",
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 10:6",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2010%3A6&version=BSB"
    },
    {
      "range": [
        5032050,
        5032050
      ],
      "kind": "recollection",
      "note": "Moses will die as Aaron died on Mount Hor.",
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 32:50",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2032%3A50&version=BSB"
    }
  ],
  "places": [
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      "name": "Mount Hor",
      "coordinate": [
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      "confidence": "Proposed site",
      "confidenceSource": "editorial",
      "sources": [
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          "label": "OpenBible · Mount Hor",
          "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/ad8027f/mount-hor-1"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "mapPeriod": "late-bronze",
  "further": [
    {
      "label": "OpenBible · Mount Hor",
      "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/ad8027f/mount-hor-1"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "content/authored/exodus-wilderness.json"
      }
    ],
    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Exodus & Wilderness",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=aaron-dies",
  "attribution": [
    "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
  "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/aaron-dies/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/aaron-dies/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/aaron-dies/index.json",
  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "aae451c87ce4b464"
}