And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor by the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month — Aaron's death occurs at Mount Hor (the border between Edom and Canaan), in the fortieth year of the Exodus, on the first day of the fifth month (Ab). This timing marks the endpoint of the wilderness generation's death-cycle: Aaron, like Moses, will not enter Canaan. His death at the border symbolizes the separation between the old covenant-generation and the new.

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