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Nu 20:29 King James And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead--Moses and Eleazar were the sole witnesses of his departure (Num 20:28). According to the established law, the new high priest could not have been present at the funeral of his father without contracting ceremonial defilement (Lev 21:11). But that law was dispensed with in the extraordinary circumstances. The people learned the event not only from the recital of the two witnesses, but from their visible signs of grief and change; and this event betokened the imperfection of the Levitical priesthood (Heb 7:12).

they mourned for Aaron thirty days--the usual period of public and solemn mourning. (See on Deu 34:8).
 
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8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.