¹⁰ When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and sorrowful lamentation, and he observed a time of mourning for his father seven days.^(A)

² Devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.^(A)

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

¹⁷ David intoned this lamentation over Saul and his son Jonathan.^(A)

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

⁸ The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the period of mourning for Moses was ended.

Events at Horeb Recalled

1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan—in the wilderness, on the plain opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.

¹¹ Those who touch the dead body of any human being shall be unclean seven days.^(A)

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