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Deuteronomy 10:6
The Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses the Israelites as he recounts their wilderness route, marking their departure from the Sinai region toward the border of the Promised Land.
The words — נָֽסְע֛וּ (na.se.'U) translates literally as "they set out," and מוֹסֵרָ֑ה (mo.se.Rah) denotes the specific campsite where Aaron’s death and burial occurred.
The thread — This route cross-references Numbers 33:30, which records the march from Hashmonah to Moseroth, and Numbers 33:38, which places Aaron’s death at Mount Hor under the LORD’s command.
Why it lands — The passage requires the reader to recognize the documented transfer of priestly authority and the exact fulfillment of the divine instruction given to Moses.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his stead.
Cross-references
- Numbers 33:38 At the LORD’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 20:23 And at Mount Hor, near the border of the land of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
- Numbers 33:30 They set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.
- Numbers 10:6 When you sound the short blasts a second time, the camps that lie on the south side are to set out. The blasts are to signal them to set out.
- Numbers 10:12 and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.
- Numbers 33:1 These are the journeys of the Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.