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Now when this purification, which their leader made upon the mourning
for his sister, as it has been now described, was over, he caused the army
to remove and to march through the wilderness and through Arabia; and when
he came to a place which the Arabians esteem their metropolis, which was
formerly called Arce, but has now the name of Petra, at this
place, which was encompassed with high mountains, Aaron went up one of
them in the sight of the whole army, Moses having before told him that
he was to die, for this place was over against them. He put off his pontifical
garments, and delivered them to Eleazar his son, to whom the high priesthood
belonged, because he was the elder brother; and died while the multitude
looked upon him. He died in the same year wherein he lost his sister, having
lived in all a hundred twenty and three years. He died on the first day
of that lunar month which is called by the Athenians Hecatombaeon, by
the Macedonians Lous, but by the Hebrews Abba.
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1 HOW MOSES CONQUERED SIHON AND OG KINGS OF THE AMORITES, AND DESTROYED THEIR WHOLE ARMY AND THEN DIVIDED THEIR LAND BY LOT TO TWO TRIBES AND A HALF OF THE HEBREWS.
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