Mount Hor
A place in the Bible
A mountain on the border of Edom, on the Israelites’ route through the desert.
What happened here
- Aaron: the Lord told Moses to go up the mountain with Aaron and with Eleazar, Aaron’s son. There Moses took off Aaron’s priestly garments and put them on Eleazar.
- His death: the Lord said that Aaron would die there and would not enter the promised land.
Today
No one knows for sure which mountain it is. It was on the border of Edom, south of the Dead Sea.
Where it appears in the Bible
Numbers 20:22; Numbers 20:25-28; Numbers 20:24
What the Bible says
Numbers 20:22
And when they had removed the camp from Cades, they came to mount Her, which is in the borders of the land of Edom:
Numbers 20:25-28
25Take Aaron and his son with him, and bring them up into mount Hor: 26And when thou hast stripped the father of his vesture, thou shalt vest therewith Eleazar his son: Aaron shall be gathered to his people, and die there. 27Moses did as the Lord had commanded: and they went up into mount Hor before all the multitude. 28And when he had stripped Aaron of his vestments, he vested Eleazar his son with them. And Aaron being dead in the top of the mountain, he came down with Eleazar.
Numbers 20:24
Let Aaron, saith he, go to his people: for he shall not go into the land which I have given the children of Israel, because he was incredulous to my words, at the waters of contradiction.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Numbers 20:22-28