Genesis 50:11 - The Scriptures 1998

¹¹ And when the inhabitants of the land, the Kenaʽ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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 Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning for the Egyptians. Therefore the place was called Abel-mizraim [mourning of Egypt]; it is west of the Jordan.

American Standard Version (1901)

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 Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

Common English Bible

¹¹ When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw the observance of grief on Atad’s threshing floor, they said, “This is a solemn observance of grief by the Egyptians.” Therefore, its name is Abel-mizraim. It is on the other side of the Jordan River.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ And when the inhabitants of the land of Canaan had seen this, they said, "This is a great Lamentation for the Egyptians." And for this reason, the name of that place was called, "The Lamentation of Egypt."

Genesis 50:11 Cross References

Genesis 13:7

And there was strife between the herdsmen of Aḇ

Genesis 24:6

And Aḇ

Genesis 34:30

And Yaʽ

Genesis 50:10

And they came to the threshing-floor of Ataḏ

Genesis 50:12

And his sons did to him as he had commanded them,

Deuteronomy 11:30

‘Are they not beyond the Yardĕ

Deuteronomy 3:25

‘I pray, let me pass over and see the good land beyond the Yardĕ

Deuteronomy 3:27

‘Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and look with your eyes, for you do not pass over this Yardĕ

1 Samuel 6:18

and the gold rats, by the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five princes, both walled cities and country villages, even as far as the great meadow on which they placed the ark of יהוה, remain to this day in the field of Yehoshua of Bĕ