Aaron
Sign in to saveAccording to the Old Testament of the Bible, Aaron ( or ) was an Israelite prophet, high priest, and the elder brother of Moses. Information about Aaron comes exclusively from religious texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament (Luke, Acts, and Hebrews), and the Quran.
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Aaron was an Israelite religious leader who, according to the Bible and Quran, served as a prophet and high priest and was the elder brother of Moses. He is known today primarily through religious texts, including the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Quran, which are the only sources of information about him.
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- El sumo sacerdote Aarón (Museo del Prado) (cropped).jpg
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- Aaron
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- The High Priest Aaron by Joan de Joanes,
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- Abrahamic religions
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- Elisheba
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- Goshen, Lower Egypt, Ancient Egypt
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- Mount Hor, near the border of Edom, Transjordan, or Moseroth, near Edom (aged 123 in Jewish traditions)
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- JudaismChristianityIslamSamaritanismBaháʼí FaithMormonismRastafari
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- IsraeliteEgyptian
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- Biblical narrative
- High Priest
- Conflicts
- Death
- Descendants
- Family tree
- Historicity
- In religious traditions
- Jewish rabbinic literature
- Christianity
- Mormonism
- {{anchor|Harun}} Islam
- Baháʼí Faith
- In art
- See also
- Notes
- Footnotes
- References
- Further reading
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According to the Old Testament of the Bible, Aaron ( or ) was an Israelite prophet, high priest, and the elder brother of Moses. Information about Aaron comes exclusively from religious texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament (Luke, Acts, and Hebrews), and the Quran.
The Hebrew Bible relates that, unlike Moses, who grew up in the Egyptian royal court, Aaron and his elder sister Miriam remained with their kinsmen in the northeastern region of the Nile Delta. When Moses first confronted the Egyptian king about the enslavement of the Israelites, Aaron served as his brother's spokesman to the Pharaoh. Part of the Law given to Moses at Sinai granted Aaron the priesthood for himself and his male descendants, and he became the first High Priest of the Israelites. Levitical priests or kohanim are traditionally believed and halakhically required to be of direct patrilineal descent from Aaron.