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.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 50:11 Abel-mizraim means mourning (or meadow) of Egypt

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