⁸ The people of Israel mourned for Moses on the plains of Moab for thirty days, until the customary period of mourning was over.

²⁹ When the people realized that Aaron had died, all Israel mourned for him thirty days.

³ The embalming process took the usual forty days. And the Egyptians mourned his death for seventy days.

¹⁰ When they arrived at the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they held a very great and solemn memorial service, with a seven-day period of mourning for Joseph’s father.

² (Some devout men came and buried Stephen with great mourning.)

The Death of Samuel

25 Now Samuel died, and all Israel gathered for his funeral. They buried him at his house in Ramah.

Nabal Angers David

Then David moved down to the wilderness of Maon.^[a]