person
Aaron
אַהֲרֹןἈαρών
- verses
- 333
- first named
- Exodus 4:14
- last named
- Hebrews 9:4
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Aaron?
Aaron was the older brother of Moses and Miriam, from the tribe of Levi. God appointed Aaron to be Moses' spokesman when Moses was called to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. Aaron performed signs before Pharaoh, including turning his staff into a snake. He assisted Moses during the Exodus, including holding up Moses' arms during the battle against the Amalekites.
God chose Aaron and his descendants to serve as priests for the Israelites. Aaron was consecrated as the first high priest and wore special priestly garments. He was responsible for offering sacrifices, burning incense, and performing other priestly duties in the tabernacle. Aaron also played a role in several significant events, such as the golden calf incident and the rebellion of Korah.
Aaron married Elisheba, and they had four sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord. Aaron died at the age of 123 on Mount Hor, and his son Eleazar succeeded him as high priest. Despite his flaws, Aaron was a key figure in Israel's history and played a crucial role in establishing the priesthood.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 19 are drawn. All 19 are listed below.
Ancestor of
Child of
Father of
- AbihuregistryExodus 6:23Leviticus 10:1Numbers 26:60 +4
- EleazarregistryExodus 6:23Exodus 6:25Numbers 3:4 +15
- IthamarregistryExodus 6:23Numbers 3:4Numbers 26:60 +8
- NadabregistryExodus 6:23Leviticus 10:1Numbers 3:2 +4
Partner of
- ElishebaregistryExodus 6:23
Sibling of
- MiriamregistryNumbers 26:59
- MosesregistryExodus 7:1Deuteronomy 32:50
Stands in the same events as
- Moses166 events
- Israel40 events
- Pharaoh26 events
- LORD10 events
- Levi8 events
- Egypt7 events
- Eleazar7 events
- Clan6 events
- Family6 events
- Abihu6 events
- Miriam6 events
- Nadab6 events
and 92 more, ordered by how many events they share.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Aaron is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
333 verses across 16 of 66 books; 50 write the name nowhere. Named in Exodus (109), Leviticus (77), Numbers (97), Deuteronomy (3), Joshua (6), Judges (1), 1 Samuel (2), 1 Chronicles (14), 2 Chronicles (6), Ezra (1), Nehemiah (2), Psalms (9), Micah (1), Luke (1), Acts (1) and Hebrews (3).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 333, across 16 books. The name is written 352 times in them.
Exodus109 verses
4:144:274:284:294:305:15:45:206:136:206:236:256:266:277:17:27:67:77:87:97:107:127:197:208:58:68:88:128:168:178:259:89:2710:310:810:1611:1012:112:2812:3112:4312:5015:2016:216:616:916:1016:3316:3417:1017:1218:1219:2424:124:924:1427:2128:128:228:328:428:1228:2928:3028:3528:3828:4028:4128:4329:429:529:929:1029:1529:1929:2029:2129:2429:2629:2729:2829:2929:3229:3529:4430:730:830:1030:1930:3031:1032:132:232:332:532:2132:2232:2532:3534:3034:3135:1938:2139:139:2739:4140:1240:1340:31
Leviticus77 verses
1:51:71:81:112:22:32:103:23:53:83:136:96:146:166:186:206:257:107:317:337:347:358:28:68:128:138:148:188:228:238:248:278:308:318:369:19:29:79:89:99:129:189:219:229:2310:110:310:410:610:810:1210:1610:1911:113:113:214:3315:116:116:216:316:616:816:916:1116:2116:2317:221:121:1721:2121:2422:222:422:1824:324:9
Numbers97 verses
1:31:171:442:13:13:23:33:43:63:93:103:323:383:393:483:514:14:54:154:164:174:194:274:284:334:344:374:414:454:466:237:88:28:38:118:138:198:208:218:229:610:812:112:412:512:1012:1113:2614:214:514:2615:3316:316:1116:1616:1716:1816:2016:3716:4016:4116:4216:4316:4616:4716:5017:317:617:817:1018:118:818:2018:2819:120:220:620:820:1020:1220:2320:2420:2520:2620:2820:2925:725:1126:126:926:5926:6026:6427:1333:133:3833:39
Deuteronomy3 verses
Joshua6 verses
Judges1 verse
1 Samuel2 verses
1 Chronicles14 verses
6:36:496:506:546:5712:2715:423:1323:2823:3224:124:1924:3127:17
2 Chronicles6 verses
Ezra1 verse
Nehemiah2 verses
Psalms9 verses
Micah1 verse
Luke1 verse
Acts1 verse
Hebrews3 verses
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Exodus 4Aaron met Moses at the mountain of God, spoke to the elders, and relayed the LORD’s words.
- Exodus 5Aaron stood with Moses before Pharaoh and later faced the Israelite foremen’s accusation.
- Exodus 6Aaron received the charge with Moses, spoke to Pharaoh, and stood among the families of Levi.
- Exodus 7Aaron spoke for Moses, threw down his staff before Pharaoh, and turned the Nile and Egypt’s waters to blood.
- Exodus 8Aaron stretched out his hand and staff over the waters and struck the dust, bringing frogs and gnats over Egypt.
- Exodus 9Aaron stands with Moses before Pharaoh and is summoned with him when Pharaoh confesses during the hail.
- Exodus 10Aaron goes with Moses to Pharaoh and declares the demand that Israel be allowed to worship the LORD.
- Exodus 11Aaron joined Moses in performing the wonders before Pharaoh.
61 more chapters, from Exodus 12 to Hebrews 5
- Exodus 12Aaron received the Passover instructions with Moses and was summoned by Pharaoh for the night-time departure.
- Exodus 16Aaron summoned Israel before the LORD and placed the preserved manna before the Testimony.
- Exodus 17Aaron holds up Moses’ hand on one side until the sun goes down.
- Exodus 18Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Jethro in the presence of God.
- Exodus 19Aaron was summoned to come down the mountain with Moses.
- Exodus 24Aaron went up with Moses, Nadab, Abihu, and the elders, then remained with Hur while Moses climbed higher.
- Exodus 27Aaron tends the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning with his sons.
- Exodus 28Aaron was clothed in the priestly garments, bearing Israel’s names on his shoulders and over his heart, with bells sounding at his entrances and exits.
- Exodus 29Aaron is washed, dressed in the priestly garments, anointed with oil, and consecrated with blood from the ram of ordination.
- Exodus 30Aaron burns incense, makes annual atonement on the altar, and washes before entering or ministering.
- Exodus 31Aaron was given holy garments for his priestly service.
- Exodus 32Aaron collected the gold, fashioned the calf, built its altar, and later explained that it had simply come out of the fire.
- Exodus 34Aaron saw Moses's radiant face and was afraid to approach him until Moses called him back.
- Exodus 35Aaron is named as the priest whose holy garments are to be made.
- Exodus 39Aaron was provided with holy garments, including the ephod, breastpiece, robe, tunic, turban, sash, and golden crown plate.
- Exodus 40Aaron was washed, clothed in holy garments, anointed, and set apart to serve as a priest.
- Leviticus 1Aaron’s sons, serving as priests, present and splatter the blood, arrange the offering, and burn it on the altar.
- Leviticus 2Aaron’s sons, the priests, receive the grain offerings, burn their memorial portions, and keep the remainder as most holy food.
- Leviticus 3Aaron’s sons served as priests, splattering the offerings’ blood around the altar and burning the appointed portions.
- Leviticus 6Aaron and his sons were given the grain offering as a holy portion, while Aaron’s appointed offering was burned completely.
- Leviticus 7Aaron and his sons receive the breast and the priestly portions of the peace offerings.
- Leviticus 8Aaron was washed, dressed, anointed, marked with sacrificial blood, and confined with his sons at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days.
- Leviticus 9Aaron brings the offerings, performs the sacrifices, blesses the people, and steps down from the altar.
- Leviticus 10Aaron remains silent after his sons die, follows the instructions about the Tent of Meeting, receives the offerings, and explains why the sin offering was not eaten.
- Leviticus 13Aaron receives the LORD’s instructions with Moses and serves among the priests who examine the afflicted.
- Leviticus 15Aaron received the LORD's instructions with Moses and stood among those charged to speak them to Israel.
- Leviticus 16Aaron bathes, dresses in sacred linen, enters behind the veil with blood and incense, confesses Israel’s sins over the live goat, and makes atonement for the sanctuary, the priests, and the assembly.
- Leviticus 17Aaron is named among those to whom Moses must deliver the LORD’s commands.
- Leviticus 21Aaron received the rules for his sons, his highest priest, and his descendants, including the precise boundary between eating holy food and approaching the sanctuary.
- Leviticus 22Aaron receives the charge concerning his sons, the sacred offerings, and the boundaries of priestly food.
- Leviticus 24Aaron tends the lamps before the LORD and receives the holy bread as his portion with his sons.
- Numbers 1Aaron stood with Moses as the congregation was assembled and counted.
- Numbers 3Aaron received the Levites for the tabernacle’s service and served as priest with his sons.
- Numbers 4Aaron and his sons covered the holy objects, assigned the carriers their tasks, and directed the service of the Gershonites.
- Numbers 6Aaron and his sons are told to speak the LORD’s blessing over the Israelites.
- Numbers 8Aaron set up the lamps, presented the Levites as a wave offering, and made atonement for them.
- Numbers 9Aaron was present when the unclean men came before Moses.
- Numbers 12Aaron criticized Moses with Miriam, stepped forward before the LORD, and pleaded with Moses for Miriam.
- Numbers 14Aaron fell facedown with Moses before the assembly.
- Numbers 15Aaron is present with Moses and the whole congregation when the man gathering wood is brought before them.
- Numbers 16Aaron stands with Moses before the congregation, presents his censer, and later runs into the plague with incense until it stops.
- Numbers 17Aaron’s staff sprouted, put forth buds, blossomed, and produced almonds.
- Numbers 18Aaron and his sons bear the iniquity involving the sanctuary and priesthood, attend to the altar and what is inside the veil, and receive the sacred offerings and the best part of the Levites’ tithe.
- Numbers 19Aaron receives the LORD’s statute together with Moses.
- Numbers 20Aaron stood with Moses before the rock, climbed Mount Hor, and died there after his priestly garments were placed on Eleazar.
- Numbers 26Aaron was named as the father of Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, and as one against whom Dathan and Abiram rebelled.
- Numbers 33Aaron led Israel with Moses, climbed Mount Hor at the LORD’s command, and died there at the age of 123.
- Deuteronomy 9Aaron is threatened with destruction in the LORD's anger, and Moses prays for him.
- Deuteronomy 10Aaron dies and is buried at Moserah.
- Deuteronomy 32Aaron died on Mount Hor, and his failure at Meribah-kadesh is recalled alongside Moses' own.
- Joshua 21Aaron’s descendants received thirteen cities and their pasturelands as the first lot fell to the Kohathite clans.
- 1 Samuel 12Aaron helped Moses bring Israel’s fathers out of Egypt.
- 1 Chronicles 6Aaron and his sons did the work of the Most Holy Place and presented the offerings.
- 1 Chronicles 24Aaron gave the regulations by which the priestly families entered their appointed service.
- Psalms 77Aaron leads God’s people with Moses, the two of them shepherding a nation through the final image.
- Psalms 99Aaron was among the LORD’s priests and called to him with Moses and Samuel.
- Psalms 105Aaron was chosen alongside Moses and performed miraculous signs in Egypt.
- Psalms 106Aaron was envied in the camp beside Moses, as the holy one of the LORD.
- Psalms 115Aaron’s house is called to trust in the LORD, who is its help and shield, and is promised blessing.
- Micah 6Aaron was sent before Israel alongside Moses and Miriam.
- Hebrews 5Aaron stands as the priest called by God rather than self-appointed.
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