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Numbers 20:23

in Numbers 20

And at Mount Hor, near the border of the land of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,

KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,

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This verse in Numbers 20

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the LORD said to Moses and Aaron

on Numbers 20:23-26

Aaron dies outside the land because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah. He watches his garments put on his son Eleazar, which Adam Clarke reads as the ordinary transfer of an office.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron - So these two dear brothers must part! Aaron must die first: but Moses is not likely to be long after him. So that it is only for a while, a little while, that they are separated.
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor,.... When they were at the foot of that mountain, in the valley adjoining to it: by the coast of the land of Edom; which they were still upon the borders of, and were going round it, not being permitted to go through it: saying; as follows.

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֧אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוָ֛הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֥הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • וְאֶֽל־and to

    veel-H413 →5510 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֖ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175 →347 times

  • בְּהֹ֣רat Hor

    behorH2023 →12 times

  • הָהָ֑רthe mountain

    haharH2022 →546 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • גְּב֥וּל[the] border of

    gevulH1366 →240 times

  • אֶֽרֶץ־[the] land of

    ʾeretz-H776 →2504 times

  • אֱד֖וֹםEdom

    ʾedomH123 →99 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Numbers 33:37They set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the outskirts of the land of Edom.2 works

The walk

3 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 33:37

    They set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the outskirts of the land of Edom.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 21:4

      Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey

    • Numbers 20:22–23

      After they had set out from Kadesh, the whole congregation of Israel came to Mount Hor.

    • Numbers 20:16

      and when we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your…

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 20 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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