¹⁰ Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they ^(A)mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation. ^(B)He observed seven days of mourning for his father.

² And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and ^(A)made great lamentation over him.

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

The Song of the Bow

¹⁷ Then David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,

¹³ Then they took their bones and ^(A)buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, ^(B)and fasted seven days.

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

The Previous Command to Enter Canaan

1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel ^(A)on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the ^[a]plain opposite ^[b]Suph, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

^11 (A)‘He who touches the dead ^[a]body of anyone shall be unclean seven days.

¹¹ And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a deep mourning of the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called ^[a]Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.