¹⁰ When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, ^(A)they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he ^(B)made a mourning for his father seven days.

² Devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him.

¹³ And they sat with him on the ground ^(A)seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan

¹⁷ And David ^(A)lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son,

¹³ And they took their bones ^(A)and buried them under ^(B)the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and ^(C)fasted seven days.

⁸ And the people of Israel ^(A)wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

The Command to Leave Horeb

1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in ^(A)the Arabah opposite ^(B)Suph, between ^(C)Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

^11 (A)“Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days.

¹¹ When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim;^[a] it is beyond the Jordan.

⁴ And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, ^(A)“If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,