Exodus

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Aaron is Moses’s brother. Because Moses is reluctant to speak to Pharaoh and the Israelites, God appoints Aaron to serve as Moses’s spokesman, or prophet. Aaron performs many of the signs and wonders that God commands Moses to do before Pharaoh. Aaron accompanies Moses up Mount Sinai, though only Moses receives God’s commandments directly. Aaron has sons named Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. In the wilderness, these sons are ordained as priests of the tabernacle along with Aaron. Aaron is also Miriam’s brother. Exodus describes the sacred garments Aaron must wear when ministering before God on the Israelites’ behalf. While Moses is delayed on Mount Sinai, Aaron gives in to the people’s demand for gods and fashions a golden calf for them to worship.

Aaron Quotes in Exodus

The Exodus quotes below are all either spoken by Aaron or refer to Aaron. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
God’s Identity and Power Theme Icon
).
Chapter 7 Quotes

Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and of his officials he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the river, and all the water in the river was turned into blood, and the fish in the river died. The river stank so that the Egyptians could not drink its water, and there was blood throughout the whole land of Egypt. But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts; so Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said. […] And all the Egyptians had to dig along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the river.

Related Characters: God/the LORD, Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh
Related Symbols: Blood
Page Number: 7:20–24
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 12 Quotes

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month shall mark for you the beginning of months […] Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household. If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male […] You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the lamb that same night […] For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.

Related Characters: God/the LORD (speaker), Moses, Aaron
Related Symbols: Blood
Page Number: 12:1–12
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 16 Quotes

The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of bread; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

Then the Lord said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and each day the people shall go out and gather enough for that day.” […] So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your complaining against the Lord.”

Related Characters: God/the LORD (speaker), Moses (speaker), Aaron (speaker)
Page Number: 16:2–7
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 32 Quotes

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” Aaron said to them, “Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears, and brought them to Aaron. He took the gold from them, formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf […] They rose early the next day, and offered burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.

Related Characters: The Israelites (speaker), Aaron (speaker), Moses
Page Number: 32:1–6
Explanation and Analysis:
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Aaron Quotes in Exodus

The Exodus quotes below are all either spoken by Aaron or refer to Aaron. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
God’s Identity and Power Theme Icon
).
Chapter 7 Quotes

Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and of his officials he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the river, and all the water in the river was turned into blood, and the fish in the river died. The river stank so that the Egyptians could not drink its water, and there was blood throughout the whole land of Egypt. But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts; so Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said. […] And all the Egyptians had to dig along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the river.

Related Characters: God/the LORD, Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh
Related Symbols: Blood
Page Number: 7:20–24
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 12 Quotes

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month shall mark for you the beginning of months […] Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household. If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male […] You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the lamb that same night […] For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.

Related Characters: God/the LORD (speaker), Moses, Aaron
Related Symbols: Blood
Page Number: 12:1–12
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 16 Quotes

The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of bread; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

Then the Lord said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and each day the people shall go out and gather enough for that day.” […] So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your complaining against the Lord.”

Related Characters: God/the LORD (speaker), Moses (speaker), Aaron (speaker)
Page Number: 16:2–7
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 32 Quotes

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” Aaron said to them, “Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” So all the people took off the gold rings from their ears, and brought them to Aaron. He took the gold from them, formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf […] They rose early the next day, and offered burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.

Related Characters: The Israelites (speaker), Aaron (speaker), Moses
Page Number: 32:1–6
Explanation and Analysis: