⁷So Joseph left to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials, the leaders in his palace staff, and all the leaders of Egypt went with him. ⁸Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household also went with him. (Only their children, their flocks, and their cattle were left in Goshen.) ⁹Chariots and horsemen went with him. It was a very large group.

¹⁰When they came to the threshing floor^aof Atad, which is on the east side of the Jordan River, they began a great and solemn ceremony to mourn Jacob’s death. Joseph took seven days to mourn his father’s death. ¹¹When the Canaanites living there saw the funeral ceremonies at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “These funeral ceremonies are taken very seriously by the Egyptians.” That’s why that place on the east side of the Jordan was named Abel Mizraim ^[Egyptian Funeral Ceremonies^[.

¹²Jacob’s sons did for him what he had told them to do. ¹³They carried him back to Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre. Abraham had bought this tomb from Ephron the Hittite.

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a 50:10 A threshing floor is an outdoor area where grain is separated from its husks.
[Proper names or foreign words whose meaning is significant for understanding a particular Bible passage are translated in brackets following the name or phrase