Male human biblical and quranic figure, brother of Moses

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Aaron staying the plague. I. Taylor after I. Taylor junior, 1815.

Moses presents his brazen serpent to the people. Woodcut after Robert Anning Bell, c. 1890.

Scenes from the life of Moses before the Exodus. Etching, 1799.

God appears radiantly behind a black cloud as Moses swings an incense burner; four people are washing their feet and hands in preparation. Etching.

Travellers at the tomb of Aaron, on the summit of Mount Hor, near Petra. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.

The child Aaron being led away by Moses' father, after abandoning Moses in the bullrushes. Etching by C. Bouzonnet-Stella, 1672, after N. Poussin, 1654.

Aaron points his rod at the river and it begins to flow with frogs. Etching.

Moses' people in exile in Egypt are compared to metals that are strengthened by being exposed to fire in a furnace without being consumed. Line engraving by C. Visscher after C. van Mander.

Moses and Aaron. Civil and ecclesiastical rites, used by the ancient Hebrewes; observed, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture : which texts are now added in the end of the booke ... Herein likewise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people / By Thomas Godwyn.

Moses and Aaron. Civil and ecclesiastical rites, used by the ancient Hebrewes; observed, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture, which texts are now added in the end of the booke. Herein likewise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people. And that many heathenish customes, originally have been unwarrantable imitations of the Hebrewes / By Thomas Godwyn. B.D.

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