19 They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

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11 When the Canaanites(A) who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.”(B) That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 50:11 Abel Mizraim means mourning of the Egyptians.

10 When Jacob saw Rachel(A) daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone(B) away from the mouth of the well and watered(C) his uncle’s sheep.(D)

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