When they arrived at the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they held a very great and solemn memorial service, with a seven-day period of mourning for Joseph’s father.
Parallel translations
- WEB They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
- 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.
- BSB When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
- NKJV Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father.
- NASB When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they mourned there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed seven days of mourning for his father.
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At the threshing floor of Atad they mourn deeply, and Joseph keeps seven days of mourning for Jacob.
Overview
The intense, seven-day lamentation reflects the depth of love and honor for Jacob. The traditional mourning period shows respect for the dead and acknowledges the weight of loss. Such heartfelt grief, observed within the hope of God's promises, is fitting for those who love and have lost the godly.
Cross-references & the web
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- Job 2:13So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
- Acts 8:2Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.
- 2 Sam 1:17David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
- 1 Sam 31:13They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
- Num 19:11“He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
- Gen 50:11When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
- Deut 34:8The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.
- Deut 1:1These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
- Gen 50:4When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
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