Numbers 20:17-29 ▼

17 Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard; we will not even drink water from a well. We will go along the king’s highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we pass through your territory.’”

18 Edom, however, said to him, “You shall not pass through us, lest I come out to meet you with the sword.”

19 Again, the sons of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway, and if I and my livestock do drink any of your water, then I will pay its price. Let me only pass through on my feet, nothing else.”

20 But he said, “You shall not pass through.” And Edom came out to meet him with a heavy force and with a strong hand.

21 Thus Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.

22 Then they set out from Kadesh, and the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.

23 And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor by the border of the land of Edom, saying,

24 “Aaron will be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the sons of Israel because you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.

25 Take Aaron and his son Eleazar and bring them up to Mount Hor;

26 and strip Aaron of his garments and put them on his son Eleazar. So Aaron will be gathered to his people and will die there.”

27 So Moses did just as Yahweh had commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.

28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on his son Eleazar, and Aaron died there on the mountain top. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.

29 So all the congregation saw that Aaron breathed his last, and all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.