Numbers 20:27

27. In the sight of all the congregation This was an impressive lesson to all the people, teaching them the sad consequences of even a momentary indulgence in unbelief and unholy tempers. “No incident could be more touching than the ascent of Aaron in full priestly dress walking to his burial. The lonely height; the robes taken from the dying man that they might be put upon Eleazar as the successor in his pontificate; the very landscape on which his eyes now rested, move us. If they climbed to the top they would see around them a wilderness of craggy summits, the very image of desolation, sinking into a maze of fathomless defiles, which formed the ancient territory of Edom.” Geikie. Though Aaron knew that he was climbing to his tomb, as did all in that vast camp spread out below, there was no farewell, because the priesthood never dies.