And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.
The children of Israel took their journey. So sudden a change from a spoken discourse to a historical narrative has greatly puzzled the most eminent Biblical scholars, some of whom reject the parenthesis as a manifest interpolation. Kennicott has shown that these two verses have been dislocated and transposed from their proper connection, which is after Deuteronomy 2:11. 'Eusebius and Jerome relate that the place of the Beeroth (wells), Bene-jaakan, was still shown in their day, 10 Roman miles from Petra, at the top of the mountain' (Robinson's 'Biblical Researches,' 2:, p. 583). Mosera, х Mowceeraah (H4149) and Mowceerowt (H4149)] - Mosera and Moseroth.
Eleazar his son ministered, х wayªkaheen (H3547)] - became, was installed, priest. The verb is found only in the Piel conjugation, bearing three senses, of which that just given is one.
Gudgodah = Hor-hagidgad (mount of the thunder: Numbers 33:32).
Jotbath, х YaaTªbaataah (H3193)] (Numbers 33:33) = Jotbathah. There is another difficulty in the record of these encampment details. The stations which the Israelites are said successively to have occupied are enumerated here in a different order from Numbers 33:31. That the names of the stations in both passages are the same, there can be no doubt; but in Numbers they are probably mentioned in reference to the first visit of the Hebrews during the long wandering southwards, before their return to Kadesh the second time; while here they have a reference to the second passage of the Israelites, when they again marched south, in order to compass the land of Edom. It is easy to conceive that Mosera (Hor) and the wells of Jaakan might lie in such a direction that a nomadic horde might in different years at one time take the former first in their way, and at another time the latter (Robinson).