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Both chariots and horsemen went up with him. It was a very great entourage.

10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is on the other side of the Jordan, and there they mourned with a very loud and bitter lament. Joseph mourned for his father seven days. 11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, witnessed the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a very solemn mourning by the Egyptians.” That is why they named the place Abel Mizraim.[a] It is beyond the Jordan.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 50:11 Abel Mizraim means mourning of the Egyptians.