37-39 After they left Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor at the border of Edom, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor at God’s command and died there. It was the first day of the fifth month in the fortieth year after the People of Israel had left Egypt. Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.

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40 The Canaanite king of Arad—he ruled in the Negev of Canaan—heard that the People of Israel had arrived.

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