⁹ Both chariots and charioteers accompanied him as well. It was a grand procession. ¹⁰ When they came to the threshing floor of Atad near Canaan but still beyond the Jordan River, the great company of mourners paused to observe seven days of mourning for Joseph’s father. The weeping and lamentation grew so loud that ¹¹ the people who lived there, the Canaanites, could not help but notice the profound grief expressed on the threshing floor of Atad.

This is why this place of mourning that lies beyond the Jordan was renamed Abel-mizraim.