Aaron

Aaron, the elder brother of Moses, was appointed his assistant and spokesman, and, in spite of his share in the idolatry of the golden calf, at the giving of the Mosaic law received for himself and his descendants the hereditary dignity of the priesthood. Aaron, who was high-priest for forty years, died at Mount Hor, on the borders of Idumea (in the 124th year of his age, Numbers, xxxiii. 39). The part assigned to Aaron is much more conspicuous in the priestly narrative of the Pentateuch (q.v.) than in the earlier Jehovistic record. See HIGH-PRIEST, PRIEST, LEVI, JEWS.