Aaron אהרֹן (+ 1445 BC), the first Old Testament high priest. The son of Amram and Jochebed from the tribe of Levi, the elder brother of the prophet Moses, was born in Egypt.
He helped Moses in liberating the Jewish people from Egyptian slavery, appearing before Pharaoh as a representative prophet speaking for him (Ex. 4: 14-17). Aaron acted as the “mouth” of Moses before Israel and Pharaoh, performed miracles before Pharaoh (in particular, Aaron’s rod turned into a serpent, and then swallowed the serpents into which the rods of Egyptian wizards turned) and, together with Moses, participated in sending down some of the ten Egyptian plagues.
He was the first high priest and the founder of the only legitimate family of priests - the Kohanim among the Jews, and the priesthood became hereditary in his family - against which Korah, Dathan and Abiron, representatives of the Levites, and their accomplices unsuccessfully rebelled. God confirmed Aaron's election when his rod miraculously blossomed. During the service, Aaron and his sons gave the Aaronic blessing to the people. Aaron was also the chief judge of Israel and the teacher of the people.
Aaron then participated in forty years of wandering Jews in the desert, where he was, by the command of God, appointed high priest.
The year of Aaron's birth should be attributed to 1578 BC. The Lord called Aaron to ministry at the age of 83 years. Aaron died at the age of 123, in 1445 BC. on Mount Hor in the desert (currently the territory of the state of Jordan), just like Moses, without reaching the promised land, as punishment for murmuring against God (Numbers 20:10).
The entire clan of Aaron was chosen by God for priestly service in the Old Testament Church, and the title of high priest was retained by his descendants until the coming of Christ the Savior to earth, successively passing to the eldest in the clan.
Aaron's descendants Holy Scripture are called "the sons of Aaron" and "the house of Aaron." According to the teaching of the Apostle Paul (Heb. 5:4-6), Aaron, as the High Priest of Israel, was a prototype of Jesus Christ, the High Priest of the New Israel, the New Testament Church.
A descendant of Aaron was Elizabeth (mother of John the Baptist) (Luke 1:5). The Apostle Paul says that the priesthood of Aaron is temporary, “for the law is associated with it” (Heb. 7:11), and is replaced by Jesus Christ, a priest according to the order of Melchizedek. In Orthodoxy, Aaron is remembered on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers; a number of monthly calendars celebrate his memory on July 20, along with the day of Elijah the Prophet and a number of other Old Testament prophets. The Western memory of Aaron is July 1, the Coptic memory is March 28.
Aaron had four sons from his wife Elisabeth (Elisheva), the daughter of Abinadab, of which the two eldest, Nadab and Abihu, died during the life of their father (they were incinerated by fire), having disobeyed God, and the high priesthood passed to his third son, Eleazar, the youngest was called Ifamar.
The classical iconography of Aaron developed in the 10th century - a gray-haired, long-bearded old man, in priestly vestments, with a rod and censer (or casket) in his hands. Aaron's image is written in the prophetic row of the iconostasis.
He turned into a serpent, and then swallowed the serpents, into which the wands of the Egyptian magicians turned) and, together with Moses, participated in the sending down of some of the ten Egyptian plagues.
He was the first high priest and founder of the only legitimate line of Jewish priests, the Kohanim. The priesthood became hereditary in his line - against which Korah, a representative of the Levites, and his accomplices rebelled unsuccessfully. God confirmed Aaron's election when his rod miraculously blossomed. During the service, Aaron and his sons gave the Aaronic blessing to the people. Aaron was also the chief judge of Israel and the teacher of the people. During Moses' stay at Sinai, Aaron, tempted by the people, made a golden calf for him, and for this the people were struck by the Lord (Ex.).
The Bible especially notes in Aaron's character the traits of conciliation, meekness and gentleness.
In Christianity
The descendants of Aaron were the father and mother of John the Baptist, the righteous Zechariah (since he was a priest) and Elizabeth (Luke). The Apostle Paul says that the priesthood of Aaron is transitory, “for the law is associated with him” (Heb.), he is replaced by Jesus Christ - a priest according to the order of Melchizedek. In Orthodoxy, Aaron is remembered on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers; a number of monthly calendars celebrate his memory on July 20, along with the day of Elijah the Prophet and a number of other Old Testament prophets. Western memory of Aaron is July 1, Coptic memory is March 28.
In Islam
In Islam, Aaron is revered under the name of Harun ibn Imran, brother of Musa. As in the Bible, his character traits are noted - Aaron has the nickname Abul-Faraj (“father of consolation”). Muslims venerate Aaron's tomb on Mount Aaron (in Arabic Jebl Nebi Harun, that is Mount of the Prophet Aaron).
In art
There is an image of Aaron in the altar part of the Kyiv Sophia. In Byzantine and Old Russian art, the image of Aron is sometimes found in icons of the Theotokos cycle (“Our Lady of the Burning Bush”, “Praise of the Mother of God”). From the middle of the 16th century, the image of Aaron was usually found as part of the prophetic row of iconostases.
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See also
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Source
- // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron: in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - St. Petersburg. , 1890-1907.
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- // Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron. - St. Petersburg. , 1908-1913.
- // Biblical encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus. - M., 1891-1892.
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Passage describing Aaron
“Mais, mon prince,” said Anna Mikhailovna, “after such a great sacrament, give him a moment of peace.” Here, Pierre, tell me your opinion,” she turned to the young man, who, right up to them, looked in surprise at the embittered face of the princess, which had lost all decency, and at the jumping cheeks of Prince Vasily.“Remember that you will be responsible for all the consequences,” said Prince Vasily sternly, “you don’t know what you are doing.”
- Vile woman! – the princess screamed, suddenly rushing at Anna Mikhailovna and snatching the briefcase.
Prince Vasily lowered his head and spread his arms.
At that moment the door, that terrible door that Pierre had been looking at for so long and which had opened so quietly, quickly and noisily fell back, banging against the wall, and the middle princess ran out of there and clasped her hands.
- What are you doing! – she said desperately. – II s"en va et vous me laissez seule. [He dies, and you leave me alone.]
The eldest princess dropped her briefcase. Anna Mikhailovna quickly bent down and, picking up the controversial item, ran to the bedroom. The eldest princess and Prince Vasily, having come to their senses, followed her. A few minutes later, the eldest princess was the first to emerge from there, with a pale and dry face and a bitten lower lip. At the sight of Pierre, her face expressed uncontrollable anger.
“Yes, rejoice now,” she said, “you have been waiting for this.”
And, bursting into tears, she covered her face with a handkerchief and ran out of the room.
Prince Vasily came out for the princess. He staggered to the sofa where Pierre was sitting and fell on it, covering his eyes with his hand. Pierre noticed that he was pale and that his lower jaw was jumping and shaking, as if in a feverish trembling.
- Ah, my friend! - he said, taking Pierre by the elbow; and in his voice there was a sincerity and weakness that Pierre had never noticed in him before. – How much do we sin, how much do we deceive, and all for what? I’m in my sixties, my friend... After all, for me... Everything will end in death, that’s it. Death is terrible. - He cried.
Anna Mikhailovna was the last to leave. She approached Pierre with quiet, slow steps.
“Pierre!...” she said.
Pierre looked at her questioningly. She kissed your forehead young man, moistening it with tears. She paused.
– II n "est plus... [He was gone...]
Pierre looked at her through his glasses.
- Allons, je vous reconduirai. Tachez de pleurer. Rien ne soulage, comme les larmes. [Come on, I'll take you with you. Try to cry: nothing makes you feel better than tears.]
She led him into the dark living room and Pierre was glad that no one there saw his face. Anna Mikhailovna left him, and when she returned, he, with his hand under his head, was fast asleep.
The next morning Anna Mikhailovna said to Pierre:
- Oui, mon cher, c"est une grande perte pour nous tous. Je ne parle pas de vous. Mais Dieu vous soutndra, vous etes jeune et vous voila a la tete d"une immense fortune, je l"espere. Le testament n"a pas ete encore ouvert. Je vous connais assez pour savoir que cela ne vous tourienera pas la tete, mais cela vous impose des devoirs, et il faut etre homme. [Yes, my friend, this is a great loss for all of us, not to mention you. But God will support you, you are young, and now you are, I hope, the owner of enormous wealth. The will has not yet been opened. I know you well enough and I am sure that this will not turn your head; but this imposes responsibilities on you; and you have to be a man.]
Pierre was silent.
– Peut etre plus tard je vous dirai, mon cher, que si je n"avais pas ete la, Dieu sait ce qui serait arrive. Vous savez, mon oncle avant hier encore me promettait de ne pas oublier Boris. Mais il n"a pas eu le temps. J "espere, mon cher ami, que vous remplirez le desir de votre pere. [Afterwards, perhaps I will tell you that if I had not been there, God knows what would have happened. You know that the uncle of the third day He promised me not to forget Boris, but he didn’t have time. I hope, my friend, you will fulfill your father’s wish.]
Pierre, not understanding anything and silently, blushing shyly, looked at Princess Anna Mikhailovna. After talking with Pierre, Anna Mikhailovna went to the Rostovs and went to bed. Waking up in the morning, she told the Rostovs and all her friends the details of the death of Count Bezukhy. She said that the count died the way she wanted to die, that his end was not only touching, but also edifying; The last meeting between father and son was so touching that she could not remember him without tears, and that she does not know who behaved better in these terrible moments: the father, who remembered everything and everyone so well in the last minutes and such Touching words were spoken to his son, or Pierre, whom it was a pity to see how he was killed and how, despite this, he tried to hide his sadness so as not to upset his dying father. “C"est penible, mais cela fait du bien; ca eleve l"ame de voir des hommes, comme le vieux comte et son digne fils,” [It’s hard, but it’s saving; the soul rises when you see people like the old count and his worthy son,” she said. She also spoke about the actions of the princess and Prince Vasily, not approving of them, but in great secrecy and in a whisper.
In Bald Mountains, the estate of Prince Nikolai Andreevich Bolkonsky, the arrival of the young Prince Andrei and the princess was expected every day; but the wait did not disrupt the orderly order in which life went on in the old prince’s house. General-in-Chief Prince Nikolai Andreevich, nicknamed in society le roi de Prusse, [the King of Prussia,] from the time he was exiled to the village under Paul, lived continuously in his Bald Mountains with his daughter, Princess Marya, and with her companion, m lle Bourienne. [Mademoiselle Bourien.] And during the new reign, although he was allowed entry into the capitals, he also continued to live in the countryside, saying that if anyone needed him, then he would travel one and a half hundred miles from Moscow to Bald Mountains, but what would he no one or anything is needed. He said that there are only two sources of human vices: idleness and superstition, and that there are only two virtues: activity and intelligence. He himself was involved in raising his daughter and, in order to develop both main virtues in her, until she was twenty, he gave her lessons in algebra and geometry and distributed her whole life in continuous studies. He himself was constantly busy either writing his memoirs, or making calculations from higher mathematics, or turning snuff boxes on a machine, or working in the garden and observing the buildings that did not stop on his estate. Since the main condition for activity is order, order in his way of life was brought to the utmost degree of precision. His trips to the table took place under the same unchanging conditions, and not only at the same hour, but also at the same minute. With the people around him, from his daughter to his servants, the prince was harsh and invariably demanding, and therefore, without being cruel, he aroused fear and respect for himself, which the most cruel person could not easily achieve. Despite the fact that he was retired and now had no significance in government affairs, every head of the province where the prince’s estate was, considered it his duty to come to him and, just like an architect, gardener or Princess Marya, waited for the appointed hour of the prince’s exit in the high waiter’s room. And everyone in this waitress experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear, while the enormously high door of the office opened and the short figure of an old man in a powdered wig appeared, with small dry hands and gray drooping eyebrows, which sometimes, as he frowned, obscured the shine of smart people. and definitely young, sparkling eyes.
AARON
(high, mountain, mountain of light, teacher, enlightened, and a common name with the name Harun, so common in the East) was the first high priest of the Jewish people and the elder brother of the prophet and lawgiver Moses (Exodus 28:1). The son of Abram and Jochebed, he came from the tribe of Levi and was three years older than his brother, Moses. Because of Moses' tongue-tiedness, he had to speak for him before the people and the Egyptian king Pharaoh, which is why he was called God by the mouth of Moses and his prophet (Exodus 4:16, 7:1); at the same time, he had to help his brother during the journey of the Jews from Egypt to the land of Canaan. Aaron took Elizabeth, the daughter of Abinadab, as his wife, and had four sons from her: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. The first two were punished by God with death for bringing alien fire to the Lord, and thus the priesthood was established in the line of the last two brothers remaining alive (Exodus 6:23). Aaron and his sons were called in a special way and directly by God himself to priestly service (Hebrews 5:4), But even before the dedication, when Moses went to Sinai to receive the law from God, the Jews became bored with the long stay of their leader on the mountain and began to Aaron, demanding that he give them a statue of one of the pagan deities as a guidebook. Aaron, yielding to the reckless demand of the people, ordered the golden earrings of their wives and children to be brought, and when they were brought, he poured out of them a golden calf, probably modeled on the Egyptian idol of Apis. The satisfied people exclaimed: Behold your God, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt (Exodus 27:4). When Aaron saw this, he set up an altar and cried out, saying, “Tomorrow is a feast for the Lord.” The next day the people brought burnt offerings before him and began to eat and drink, and then play (Exodus 32:1-6). For such weakness, Aaron was justly reproached by Moses; but since this cowardice was soon smoothed over by repentance, even after this Aaron was not deprived of God’s favor. Moses, by the will of God, at the same Mount Sinai elevated him to the high rank of high priest, or high priest, with the right to transfer the high priesthood to the eldest in his family, and appointed his four sons as priests or priests (Lev 8). However, soon after the dedication, two of Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, took their censers and brought alien fire before the Lord (that is, not taken from the altar, as was commanded by the Lord), for which they were killed by the fire sent from the Lord (Lev. 10:1-7). The Book of Numbers (3:4) notes that this happened while the people were still in the wilderness of Sinai. Following their death, Moses went to Aaron and conveyed to him the will of the Lord regarding the priests in the following words: In those who draw near to Me I will be sanctified and will be glorified before all the people (Lev. 10:3). Shortly before the departure of the Jews from the Sinai desert, Aaron, with his sister Miriam, had the weakness to challenge Moses' right to prophecy, pointing to his marriage to an Ethiopian. For this reproach made to Moses, Miriam was punished with seven days of leprosy (Num. 12). Aaron, after confessing his sin to the Lord, was forgiven. Being a constant collaborator with Moses, Aaron, like him, was often subject to reproaches and insults from the easily indignant Jews. Once it even came to the point of challenging his right to the high priesthood. This revolt took place under the leadership of the Levite Korah, Dathan, Abiron and Avian with 250 people of the most prominent Israelites from other tribes. “The whole community, all are holy, and the Lord is among them! Why do you put yourselves above the people of the Lord (Numbers 16:3). They said to Moses and Aaron. The consequence of the indignation was that the instigators of the rebellion were consumed by the earth, and their 250 accomplices were burned by heavenly fire But God’s terrible punishment did not bring the rebels to their senses. The next day the people again grumbled against Moses and Aaron (Numbers 16:41): “You have killed the people of the Lord,” he cried, and then anger came out from the Lord and defeat began among the people: 14,700 died. At the command of Moses, Aaron took the censer, put incense and fire from the altar into it, stood between the dead and the living, and the defeat ceased (Numbers 16:42-49). Of all 12 tribes, Moses placed 12 rods in the tabernacle at night with an inscription on each name of the ancestor of the tribe; in the morning the rod of the tribe of Levi, with the name of Aaron, blossomed, sprouted buds, gave flowers and brought forth almonds (Numbers 17:8). then the blossoming rod was kept for a long time after that at the Ark of the Covenant, as a clear proof that the priesthood was forever confirmed by God for Aaron and his sons. However, Aaron did not live to see the Israelites enter the Promised Land. For the lack of faith in the omnipotence of God, which he discovered in the desert of Sin, he died before this solemn day (Numbers 20:12). In the fortieth year, after leaving Egypt, the Lord ordered him, together with Moses his brother and Eleazar his son, to ascend Mount Hor, and in the eyes of the whole community to die on its top (Numbers 20:28). In the book In Deuteronomy, the place of Aaron’s death is called Moser (10:6), the agora of Or is still called by the Arabs the mountain of the prophet Aaron (Jebel Harun). It still shows the place of his burial. The people of Israel honored his death with thirty days of mourning (Numbers 20:29). Aaron died at the age of 123, on the first day of the fifth month. In the Jewish calendar, a fast is prescribed on this day in memory of his death. The high priesthood after him passed to his eldest son, Eleazar. In the book In the Psalms he is called the holy one of the Lord (Ps. 106:16). The priests in later times were often called the house of Aaron and the sons of Aaron, in honor of their great ancestor. According to the general chronology, Aaron's birth was in 1574 BC, calling in 1491, dedication in 1490, and death in 1451.
Aaron
[Jewish Aharon]
The meaning of the name is not precisely established, perhaps corresponds to the Egyptian “great name”. Aaron was a descendant of Levi, the son of Amram and Jochebed (Exodus 6:20; Num 26:59). He was younger than his sister Miriam and three years older than his brother Moses (Exodus 7:7). Aaron was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Abminadab and sister of Nahshon from the tribe of Judah (Numbers 1:7). She bore him four sons - Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar (Exodus 6:23). Having called Moses to be the leader and liberator of Israel, God appointed Aaron to speak to the people in place of his tongue-tied brother. Aaron was to become Moses' "mouth" (Exodus 4:16) and his prophet (Exodus 7:1). The brothers meet in the wilderness (Exodus 4:27), appear before the elders of Israel (verses 28-31) and before Pharaoh. When talking with Pharaoh and during the first three plagues of Egypt, Aaron wields a rod (Exodus 7:9,19; Exodus 8:5,17), which later works only in the hands of Moses. Aaron and Moses receive God's permission to exodus from Egypt (Exodus 12:31) and lead the people during the period of wandering through the desert (chapter 16). When Moses prays during the battle of the Israelites with the Amalekites, Aaron, along with Hur, supports his hands (Exodus 17:12). Aaron together with Moses ascends Mount Sinai (Exodus 19:24), accompanies the leader with his two sons, Nadab and Abihu, and 70 elders at the solemn conclusion of the covenant with the Lord (Exodus 24:1,9). When Moses again ascends Mount Sinai, he appoints Aaron and Ora in his place, whom he entrusts to administer justice during his absence (verse 14). In the next 40 days, Moses receives from God, among others, the command to consecrate Aaron and his sons as priests (chapters 28; 29). Aaron's descendants were given the right to inherit the high priesthood (Exodus 29:29). The purpose of the priests and their duties, the rights to sacrifices and their provision - all this is established by God Himself (Numbers 4:18). While Moses is on the mountain, Aaron yields to the pressure of the people and erects an image of a bull (golden →). Here Aaron reveals himself to be a weak-willed person who does not have the authority of a leader. But he shifts the blame for his helplessness and falling away from God onto the people (Exodus 32). Moses, through his intercession, saves his brother from the wrath of God (Deuteronomy 9:20) and, after the construction of the tabernacle of meeting, ordains Aaron and his sons to the priesthood in accordance with the will of the Lord (Lev 8). Aaron's special position is emphasized primarily by his confidant with 12 precious stones, as well as the Urim and Thummim. On the day of dedication, Aaron’s eldest sons Nadab and Abihu “offered strange fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them”; for such self-will they were punished with death (Lev. 10:1 et seq.). How strictly God treats the priestly ministry is evidenced not only by their sudden death, but also that Aaron, as the high priest, did not dare to express his personal grief, otherwise he too would face death (verse 6). While chastising, God remains true to His word: “I will be sanctified in those who draw near to Me, and I will be glorified before all the people” (verse 3). In the second year of wandering in the desert Aaron together with Miriam he opposed Moses. They reproached Moses for his “Ethiopian wife” and doubted his special position before God. It can be assumed that the initiative in this speech belonged to Mariami, whom the Lord punishes with leprosy. Aaron intercedes for her before Moses, and, thanks to the latter’s prayer, she is given healing (Numbers 12). The rebellion of Korah, Dathan and Abiron is directed not only against the power of Moses, but also against securing the right to the priesthood for Aaron and his sons. When the people blame Moses and Aaron for the death of the rebels, the Lord sends defeat upon the Israelites, which Aaron prevents through sacrificial incense. Then the Lord reaffirms Aaron's priesthood: the rod of Levi, on which Aaron's name was written, turned green and blossomed (chapters 16; 17). This rod was subsequently placed in the ark of the covenant (Hebrews 9:4). In Kadesh, Aaron finds himself involved in the guilt of Moses, who struck the rock twice with his rod, when he should have limited himself to a word. For this, they both lose the right to enter the Promised Land (Numbers 20). Soon the Lord calls Aaron away. Moses, at the direction of the Lord, ascends Mount Hor along with Aaron and Eleazar. There he takes off Aaron's high priestly robes and puts them on his son Eleazar, who takes his father's place. Aaron dies at the age of 123 (Numbers 33:39), and is mourned for 30 days (Numbers 20:23-29). Aaron lacks independence; in his actions he is highly dependent on others - Moses, Miriam, the people. The significance of Aaron as a person is that it was him who God called to be the high priest of Israel. But Aaron's ministry is limited, which is especially symbolized by the fact that he laid down his high priestly robes before his death. Heb 7:1–Heb 9:1 emphasizes the temporal limitations and imperfection of the Aaronic priesthood in comparison with the Messianic priesthood “according to the order of Melchizedek” (Heb 5:6; Heb 7:11). The priests of Israel were subsequently designated "sons of Aaron." “Sons of Zadok”, who served as priests in the Jerusalem Temple from the moment of its consecration under Solomon until 171 BC. (except for the period of the Babylonian captivity), also belong to the descendants of Aaron.
Moses had two sons: the first - Gersham, so he named him in honor of the fact that “I became a stranger in a strange land”, and the second - Eliezer - “The God of my father was my helper and delivered me from the hands of Pharaoh.” When directly translating these names, the mentioned meanings were not found, but when reading them back and when translating from Sanskrit, we get the following meaning. The name Gersham is masrig: maskarin [maskarin] “mendicant monk,” and the name Eliezer is rezeile, as in: resa-il [resa-il] “circumcised by God.” If we understand “circumcised” as “saved,” then everything fits, but a strange story happened with the second son.
“And the Lord said to Moses in (the land of) Midian: Go, return to Egypt, for all who sought your life are dead. And Moses took his wife and his sons, put them on a donkey, and went to the land of Egypt... On the way, at an overnight stop, it happened that the Lord met him and wanted to kill him. Then Zipporah, taking a stone knife, circumcised foreskin her son and throwing her at his feet, she said, “You are the bridegroom of my blood.” And the Lord departed from him. Then she said, “Bridegroom of blood is according to circumcision” (Ex. 4:19,20,24,25).
It's pretty strange case, but let's try to reason logically. Someone in the dark approached the site of Moses’ family and wanted to kill him. Moses was probably already asleep if he could not resist the attacker. For some reason, the wife mistook the attacker for the Lord, as if she had often seen Him. Even Moses did not see, but only heard the Voice from a thorn bush or volcano blazing with fire. But why should the Lord kill Moses if He himself sent him to Egypt to fulfill important mission? And then the woman circumcises her own child, which is unacceptable by law, in the dark, with the risk of injuring him. And she threw a small piece of flesh at the feet of someone, and he, having probably eaten it, left. Perhaps it was a lion or a jackal, which she took to be the embodiment of a higher being. But what does the “groom” have to do with it, if her husband is sleeping next to her, though the cry of a child will even wake up the dead. Surely this entire scene was made up to illustrate the power of circumcision and the meaning of the second son's name or mistranslation.
Moses had a brother Aaron*, who met them near Mount Horeb-Sinai. Translated from Sanskrit, the name Aaron means: a-arati [a-arati], where a “without, not”, arati “servant serving during the sacrifice,” i.e. “not a servant, but the main one during the sacrifice.” This is exactly what he became later when Moses appointed him chief among the Levites serving at the altar to God. And at the beginning of his career, he was just a servant, so his name was Aron - Arati. Aaron also had the nickname Abul Faraj (father of consolation), but if you read it the other way around - jaraf luba, then translated from Sanskrit as: ja ravi luba [ja ravi luba], where ja “occurring”, ravi “sun, sun god, teacher ", luba "to love", i.e. “man comes from loving teachers.”
Since Moses was “tongue-tied” (stuttered severely), he asked his brother to accompany him to Pharaoh in order to present him with a request on behalf of the Israelites. They wanted Pharaoh to let them go into the desert to Mount Horeb for a week to make sacrifices to their God. But taking advantage of this, they planned to leave Egypt forever and settle where the Lord Jehovah indicated.
Reference.
* Aaro;n (Hebrew ;;;;;;, Aharon; etymology is unclear) in the Pentateuch - the elder (by three years) brother of Moses and his associate during the liberation of the Jews from Egyptian slavery, the first Jewish high priest. Son of Amram and Jochebed from the tribe of Levi. He was the first high priest and founder of the only legitimate family of Jewish priests - the Kohanim. During the service, Aaron and his sons gave the Aaronic blessing to the people. Aaron was also the chief judge of Israel and teacher of the people). The Lord called Aaron to ministry at the age of 83; he died at the age of 123, in the 40th year after the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt on Mount Hor, located south of Israel, near the ancient Idumean city of Petra. The people mourned Aaron for 30 days. In Islam, Aaron is revered under the name of Harun ibn Imran, brother of Musa. As in the Bible, his character traits are noted - Aaron has the nickname Abul-Faraj (“father of consolation”). Muslims venerate the tomb of Aaron on Mount Aaron (in Arabic Jebl-nebi-Harun, that is, Mount of the Prophet Aaron (from Wikipedia).
