"And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which {is} beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore…" — Genesis 50:10

Genesis 50:10 · KJV

“And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which {is} beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.”

— Genesis 50:10

Verse 9

And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

Verse 11

And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This {is} a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which {is} beyond Jordan. {Abelmizraim: that is, The mourning of the Egyptians}

Genesis 50 — Context

And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which {is} beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

Cross References

Job 2:13

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that {his} grief was very great.

Acts 8:2

And devout men carried Stephen {to his burial}, and made great lamentation over him.

2 Samuel 1:17

And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

1 Samuel 31:13

And they took their bones, and buried {them} under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Numbers 19:11

He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. {man: Heb. soul of man}

Genesis 50:4

And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

Deuteronomy 1:1

These {be} the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red {sea}, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. {the Red...: or, Zuph}

Deuteronomy 34:8

And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping {and} mourning for Moses were ended.