Genesis 50:11DRA

Catholic Bible · DRA · Verse 11 of 26

"And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which beyond Jordan."
Genesis 50:11

In context

9And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

10And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

11And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which beyond Jordan.

12And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

13For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

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