“And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.”
The Lord tells Aaron: go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And Aaron goes and meets Moses at the mountain of God and kisses him. The reunion of brothers after forty years of separation is recorded with extraordinary brevity: they met, and Aaron kissed him. No recrimination, no explanation of the decades apart, no awkward renegotiation of a relationship interrupted by flight and bondage. Just the kiss of brothers reunited at the mountain of God. Luke 15:20 echoes this image when the father runs to the returning prodigal and falls on his neck and kisses him. The place of reunion — Horeb, the mountain where God spoke from the bush — is itself a statement: the brothers meet in God's presence, on ground already declared holy. Their partnership will hold Israel's story for the next forty years.
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