“Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.”
'Let Aaron be gathered to his people. For he shall not enter the land that I have given to the Israelites, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah' — Aaron's death is presented as 'gathering' (yei'asef el amav), a euphemism suggesting peaceful joining with the ancestors. Yet the reason is the Meribah sin: both Moses and Aaron's disobedience carried the same sentence. Aaron, like the generation of Sinai, will die in the wilderness.
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