Numbers 20:29

When all the community saw that Aaron was dead, the entire nation wept for Aaron for thirty days.

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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

28Moses took Aaron's priestly garments off him and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:2Sarah died in Kiriath Arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan. Abraham mourned and wept for Sarah.

Deuteronomy 34:8The people of Israel mourned for Moses in the plains of Moab for thirty days, and then the days of mourning for Moses were finished.

Acts 8:2Devout men buried Stephen 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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