Verse 10

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow. There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father.

Referenced Verses

• Acts 8:2 : 2 Some devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.
• 2 Sam 1:17 : 17 David’s Tribute to Saul and Jonathan Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan.
• Job 2:13 : 13 Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.
• 1 Sam 31:13 : 13 They took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh; then they fasted for seven days.
• Gen 50:4 : 4 When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s royal court,“If I have found favor in your sight, please say to Pharaoh,
• Gen 50:11 : 11 When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said,“This is a very sad occasion for the Egyptians.” That is why its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
• Num 19:11 : 11 Purification from Uncleanness“‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.
• Deut 1:1 : 1 ¶ The Covenant Setting This is what Moses said to all of Israel in the Transjordanian wilderness, the arid rift valley opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di Zahab.
• Deut 34:8 : 8 The Israelites mourned for Moses in the rift valley plains of Moab for thirty days; then the days of mourning for Moses ended.