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Genesis 50:9-11
Good News Translation
Genesis 50:9-11
Good News Translation
9 Men in chariots and men on horseback also went with him; it was a huge group.
10 When they came to the threshing place at Atad east of the Jordan, they mourned loudly for a long time, and Joseph performed mourning ceremonies for seven days. 11 When the citizens of Canaan saw those people mourning at Atad, they said, “What a solemn ceremony of mourning the Egyptians are holding!” That is why the place was named Abel Mizraim.[a]
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- Genesis 50:11 This name sounds like the Hebrew for “mourning of the Egyptians.”
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