Genesis 50:10-12

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁰ When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father 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 to the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named A′bel-mizraim;^[a] it is beyond the Jordan. ¹² Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them;