biography
pronunciation:
[airon]
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| male
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| lived:
| (15th–13th-c BC)
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| biography:
| Biblical patriarch, the first high priest of the Israelites, and said to be the founder of the priesthood; the elder brother of Moses. He was spokesman for Moses to the Egyptian pharoah in his attempts to lead their people out of Egypt. He later joined rebellious Israelites in making a golden calf for idolatrous worship. He and his sons were ordained as priests after the construction of the Ark of the Covenant and the Tabernacle, and he was confirmed as hereditary high priest by the miracle of his rod blossoming into an almond tree (hence various plants nicknamed ‘Aaron's Rod’). |
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