in Deuteronomy 32:50–51. At the same time, Numbers 20:23–29 presumes information from earlier passages: Aaron is said to be stripped of his vestments, which are then placed on his son Eleazar (vv. 25–26, 28); these are the official priestly garments first described in Exodus 28, made in Exodus 39, and placed on Aaron in the ceremony of Leviticus 8:6–9. The watery chaos of Genesis 1, although contradicted by the description of the earth in Genesis 2, is a central image for part of the flood story,