OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 20:29

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When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

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Verse 29. Dead, in the 123d year of his age. Menochius.—Neither Moses, Aaron, nor Mary, representing the Law, the priests, and the prophets of the Old Testament, could introduce the people into the promised land. This honour was reserved for Josue, the illustrious figure of Jesus Christ, and of his Church. Calmet.

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