KJV King James Version
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.
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Genesis 50:11
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.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
When the Canaanites of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn ceremony of mourning by the Egyptians.” Thus the place across the Jordan is called Abel-mizraim.
WEB World English Bible
When 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.
ASV American Standard Version
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 Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and the inhabitant of the land, the Canaanite, see the mourning in the threshing-floor of Atad, and say, ‘A grievous mourning is this to the Egyptians;’ therefore hath one called its name ‘The mourning of the Egyptians,’ which is beyond the Jordan.
Surrounding context — Genesis 50
8 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.
9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
10 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.
11 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.
12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
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וַיַּ֡רְאH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeיוֹשֵׁב֩H3427 · ya.shavto dwellהָאָ֨רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetהַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֜יH3669 · ke.na.a.niCanaaniteאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָאֵ֗בֶלH60 · e.velmourningבְּגֹ֙רֶן֙H1637 · go.renthreshing floorהָֽאָטָ֔דH329 · a.tadAtadוַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּH559 · a.marto sayאֵֽבֶל־H60 · e.velmourningכָּבֵ֥דH3515 · ka.vedheavyזֶ֖הH2088 · zehthisלְמִצְרָ֑יִםH4714 · mits.ra.yimEgyptעַל־H5921 · aluponכֵּ֞ןH3651 · kenrightקָרָ֤אH7121 · qa.rato call: call toשְׁמָהּ֙H8034 · shemnameאָבֵ֣לH67 · a.vel mits.ra.yimAbel-mizraimמִצְרַ֔יִםH67 · a.vel mits.ra.yimAbel-mizraimאֲשֶׁ֖רH834 · a.sherwhichבְּעֵ֥בֶרH5676 · e.verside: besideהַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃H3383 · yar.denJordan
Cross-references
Genesis 24:6And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.Genesis 10:15-19And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,Deuteronomy 3:25I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that [is] beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.Genesis 34:30And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I [being] few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.Genesis 13:7And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.1 Samuel 6:18And the golden mice, [according to] the number of all the cities of the Philistines [belonging] to the five lords, [both] of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great [stone of] Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: [which stone remaineth] unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.Genesis 50:10And 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.Deuteronomy 3:27Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold [it] with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.Deuteronomy 11:30[Are] they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
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