10 When they came to the [a]threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they (A)lamented there with a very great and [b]sorrowful lamentation; and he [c]observed seven days mourning for his father. 11 Now when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at [d]the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a [e]grievous [f]mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore it was named [g]Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

Burial at Machpelah

12 Thus his sons did for him as he had charged them;

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 50:10 Heb Goren ha-Atad
  2. Genesis 50:10 Lit heavy
  3. Genesis 50:10 Lit made a mourning for seven days
  4. Genesis 50:11 Heb Goren ha-Atad
  5. Genesis 50:11 Lit heavy
  6. Genesis 50:11 Heb ebel
  7. Genesis 50:11 I.e. the meadow (or mourning) of Egypt