Aaron

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Aaron
Portrait painting of Aaron by Joan de Joanes, c. 1545 – c. 1550
Aaron Venerated in Judaism Christianity Islam Samaritanism Baháʼí Faith Mormonism Feast Latin Church: July 1 The Sunday before Nativity (Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the Old Testament) (Eastern Orthodox Church) Maronite Church: September 4
Title	Prophet, High Priest
Personal
Parents	Amram (father) Jochebed (mother)
Relatives	Levi (great-grandfather) Moses (brother) Miriam (sister) Gershom (nephew) Eliezer (nephew)

According to Abrahamic religions, Aaron^{[note 1]} (/ˈærən/ ARR-ən or /ˈɛərən/ AIR-ən)^[2] was a prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of Moses.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]} Information about Aaron comes exclusively from religious texts such as the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament (Luke, Acts, and Hebrews),^[9][10][11] 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 (Exodus 7:1). 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.^[12] Levitical priests or kohanim are traditionally believed and halakhically required to be of direct patrilineal descent from Aaron.^[13]

According to the Book of Numbers, Aaron died at 123 years of age, on Mount Hor, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt.^[14] Deuteronomy, however, places these events at Moseroth.^[15][16]

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