Aaron the priest went up onto Mount Hor at the word of the Lord and died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the Israelites, according to all that the Lord had commanded him to give to them.
(The Israelites set out from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and his son Eleazar ministered in the priest’s office in his place.