Numbers 33:39-41
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
39 Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40 [a]When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who ruled over the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming….
41 [b]Setting out from Mount Hor, they camped at Zalmonah.
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- 33:40 The verse repeats almost verbatim the same introduction to the account of the victory over Arad as is given in 21:1–3, where it also follows the account of Aaron’s death. Perhaps the isolated verse here is intended by the editor(s) of Numbers to point the reader to the fuller account given there.
- 33:41b–49 It seems that this section stood originally immediately after v. 36a.
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