![]() ![]() Moses eventually requested that God send someone else (Exodus 4:13). When God spoke to Moses through a burning bush, calling him to go back to Egypt and demand that Pharaoh free the Israelites (Exodus 3-4), Moses gave reasons why he was not a good choice for the job. We read nothing of Aaron until God sends him to the eighty-year-old Moses. Presumably Aaron was born prior to the laws, or he escaped death because the midwives feared God rather than obeyed Pharaoh (Exodus 1:15–22). ![]() These laws had been enacted by the time Moses was born. When the midwives refused, Pharaoh ordered all the people to throw the Hebrew male infants into the Nile. ![]() He also ordered the Hebrew midwives to kill all the baby boys as soon as they were born. A new Pharaoh feared the Israelites would rise up against the Egyptians, so he put slave masters over them and enacted harsh laws (Exodus 1:8–14). The Israelites remained in Egypt after Joseph and his generation died, and they became quite numerous. We are first introduced to Aaron in Exodus 4 when God tells Moses that He will send Aaron, Moses’ brother, with him to free the Israelites from Pharaoh. He was born to a family of Levites during Israel’s enslavement in Egypt and was Moses’ older brother, three years his senior (Exodus 7:7). Aaron is best known for his role in the exodus and for being the first of the Levitical, or Aaronic, priesthood. ![]()
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