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Joseph’s family also went. His brothers and all the rest of his father’s family went. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen. Chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very large group.

10 They came to Atad, a place where grain was processed. It was near the Jordan River. There they sobbed loudly and bitterly. Joseph set apart seven days of sadness to honor his father’s memory.

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besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household.(A) Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.(B) Chariots(C) and horsemen[a] also went up with him. It was a very large company.

10 When they reached the threshing floor(D) of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly;(E) and there Joseph observed a seven-day period(F) of mourning(G) for his father.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 50:9 Or charioteers