Numbers 20:29

and all the congregation sees that Aaron has expired, and all the house of Israel laments Aaron [for] thirty days.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

In Context

28and Moses strips Aaron of his garments, and clothes his son Eleazar with them, and Aaron dies there on the top of the mountain; and Moses comes down—Eleazar also—from the mountain,

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Cross References

Genesis 23:2and Sarah dies in Kirjath-Arba, which [is] Hebron, in the land of Canaan, and Abraham goes to mourn for Sarah, and to lament her.

Deuteronomy 34:8And the sons of Israel lament Moses in the plains of Moab [for] thirty days; and the days of weeping [and] mourning for Moses are completed.

Acts 8:2and devout men carried Stephen away, and made great lamentation over him;

Matthew Henry on Numbers 20:23-29

The Edomites Refuse a Passage to Israel; The Death of Aaron. ( b. c. 1452.) 22 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor. 23 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying, 24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah. 25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring… Read the whole commentary →

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