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2. He and Miriam Were Older Than Moses. We read that “Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh,”1 which tells us that Aaron was older than Moses by three years. (It also tells us that it is never too late to embark on a new career).
As the older brother of Moses, Aaron played a major role in the Jews' escape from Egypt and their wanderings in the desert for 40 years. Aaron acted as Moses' spokesman to Pharaoh in Egypt, because Moses complained to God that he could not do it himself, being slow of speech.
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According to Julius Wellhausen, a German biblical scholar, and his followers, the Yahwist source was the oldest one, followed in order by the Elohist, the Deuteronomist, and the Priestly code. Scholars have attributed the passages about Aaron to one or the other of these sources.
Aaron in the Bible Is Moses’ Older Brother. The book of Exodus begins with the Lord’s call for Moses to liberate Israel from their Egyptian slavedrivers. Moses, originally, rejects this divine commission. He believes himself to be of no importance, a man of slow speech ( Exodus 4:10 ).
According to Abrahamic religions, Aaron (/ ˈ ær ən / ARR-ən or / ˈ ɛər ən / AIR-ən) was a prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of Moses. Information about Aaron comes exclusively from religious texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament (Luke, Acts, and Hebrews), and the Quran.
