“And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.”
From Oboth they journeyed to Iye-abarim, on the border of Moab — Iye-abarim (literally, 'ruins of the Abarim') marks Israel's arrival at Moab's border. The Abarim is a mountain range east of the Jordan, part of the geography Israel must navigate to enter the Promised Land. The naming of borders establishes that Israel approaches foreign territory; Moab will soon appear as an active character in the narrative (through Balak's embassy to Balaam in chapter 22).
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