⁸ The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the period of mourning for Moses was ended.

³ they spent forty days doing this, for that is the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.^(A)

²⁹ When all the congregation saw that Aaron had died, all the house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.

¹⁰ When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and sorrowful lamentation, and he observed a time of mourning for his father seven days.^(A)

² Devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.^(A)

Israel’s Futile Idolatry

Death of Samuel

25 Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him. They buried him at his home in Ramah.

Then David got up and went down to the wilderness of Paran.^(A)