¹⁰ When they reached the threshing floor^(A) of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly;^(B) and there Joseph observed a seven-day period^(C) of mourning^(D) for his father.^{(E) 11} When the Canaanites^(F) who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.”^(G) That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.^[a]

The Command to Leave Horeb

1 These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan^(A)—that is, in the Arabah^(B)—opposite Suph, between Paran^(C) and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.

⁵ East of the Jordan in the territory of Moab,^(A) Moses began to expound this law, saying:

⁸ So at that time we took from these two kings of the Amorites^(A) the territory east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge as far as Mount Hermon.^(B)

²⁰ until the Lord gives rest to your fellow Israelites as he has to you, and they too have taken over the land that the Lord your God is giving them across the Jordan. After that, each of you may go back to the possession I have given you.”