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Updated: May 7, 2025
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 Jordan.
Local tradition connected the name of Abel-mizraim, "the meadow of Egypt," on the eastern side of the Jordan, with the long funeral procession which wended its way from Zoan to Hebron. We cannot believe, however, that the mourners would have so far gone out of their road, even if the etymology assigned by tradition to the name could be supported.
And they came up to Atad's threshing floor Beyond the river Jordan, where full sore They mourned for him till seven days were past, So long their mourning in that place did last. Which when the Canaanites beheld they said, Surely some eminent Egyptian's dead. Wherefore they call'd it Abel-mizraim. Thus did his sons as he commanded them.
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