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Israel: The Death of Aaron

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Numbers 20:22, 29 After they had set out from Kadesh, the whole congregation of Israel came to Mount Hor. / When the whole congregation saw that Aaron had died, the entire house of Israel mourned for him thirty days.
Numbers 33:38, 39 At the LORD’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt. / Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.
Deuteronomy 10:6 The Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest.