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.)

¹³ Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. No one said a word to Job, for they saw that his suffering was too great for words.

David’s Song for Saul and Jonathan

¹⁷ Then David composed a funeral song for Saul and Jonathan,

¹³ Then they took their bones and buried them beneath the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.

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

Introduction to Moses’ First Address

1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all the people of Israel while they were in the wilderness east of the Jordan River. They were camped in the Jordan Valley^[a] near Suph, between Paran on one side and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab on the other.

¹¹ “All those who touch a dead human body will be ceremonially unclean for seven days.

¹¹ The local residents, the Canaanites, watched them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad. Then they renamed that place (which is near the Jordan) Abel-mizraim,^[a] for they said, “This is a place of deep mourning for these Egyptians.”

⁴ When the period of mourning was over, Joseph approached Pharaoh’s advisers and said, “Please do me this favor and speak to Pharaoh on my behalf.