²⁹ When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.^(A)

³¹ Then David said to Joab and all the people with him, “Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth^(A) and walk in mourning^(B) in front of Abner.” King David himself walked behind the bier.

³ taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.^(A)

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^(A) who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.”^(B) That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.^[a]