Genesis 50:10 — Meaning and Application

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“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.”

Genesis 50:10

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And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

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.

And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This {is} a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which {is} beyond Jordan. {Abelmizraim: that is, The mourning of the Egyptians}

And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

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Genesis 50:1

"And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him."

Genesis 50:2

"And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel."

Genesis 50:3

"And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. {mourned: Heb. wept}"

Genesis 50:4

"And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,"

Genesis 50:5

"My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again."

Genesis 50:6

"And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear."

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