MOSERAH, MOSEROTH mō sē’ ra, -rŏth (מﯴסֵרָ֑ה, מֹסֵרֹֽות, bond[s]), a place where the Israelites encamped on their journey from Egypt to Canaan (Num 33:30, 31), and where Aaron was said to have died (Deut 10:6). The site is unknown, but it must have been near Mount Hor, by the border of Edom. Some scholars regard this a variant tradition of the death and burial of Aaron, because he died at Mount Hor (Num 33:38; cf. 20:22). Perhaps the problem could be solved by relating the two passages to different journeys. Deuteronomy 10:6 and 7 refer to the march in the fortieth year, when the Israelites went from Kadesh through the Wady Murrah into the Arabah to Mount Hor, and encamped in the Arabah first of all at the wells of the children, and then at Moserah, where Aaron died on Mount Hor, which was in the neighborhood (Keil). This would have been the second visit to these places (cf. Gispen, Numeri II, 268). According to some, the name Moserah means “chastisement” because Aaron’s death was regarded as a chastisement for the trespass at Meribah (Num 20:24; Deut 32:51). The word is rather derived from Heb. ’āsar, “to bind.”