Genesis 50:10

New American Bible - revised edition

When they arrived at Goren-ha-atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and solemn memorial service; and Joseph observed seven days of mourning for his father.

Cross References

Genesis 27:41

Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. Esau said to himself, “Let the time of mourning for my father come, so that I may kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 50:11

When the Canaanites who inhabited the land saw the mourning at Goren-ha-atad, they said, “This is a solemn funeral on the part of the Egyptians!” That is why the place was named Abel-mizraim. It is beyond the Jordan.

Genesis 50:3

they spent forty days at it, for that is the full period of embalming; and the Egyptians mourned him for seventy days.

Genesis 50:4

When the period of mourning was over, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh’s household. “If you please, appeal to Pharaoh, saying:

Genesis 50:9

Chariots, too, and horsemen went up with him; it was a very imposing retinue.

2 Samuel 1:17

Then David chanted this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan

2 Samuel 11:26

When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband had died, she mourned her lord.

1 Chronicles 10:12

all their warriors set out, recovered the corpses of Saul and his sons, and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the oak of Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.

Job 2:13

Then they sat down upon the ground with him seven days and seven nights, but none of them spoke a word to him; for they saw how great was his suffering.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

When one is afraid of heights, and perils in the street; When the almond tree blooms, and the locust grows sluggish and the caper berry is without effect, Because mortals go to their lasting home, and mourners go about the streets;

Numbers 19:11

Those who touch the corpse of any human being will be unclean for seven days;

Numbers 20:29

all the community understood that Aaron had breathed his last; and for thirty days the whole house of Israel mourned Aaron.

Acts 8:2

Devout men buried Stephen and made a loud lament over him.

Deuteronomy 1:1

These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah, opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

Deuteronomy 34:8

The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab for thirty days, till they had completed the period of grief and mourning for Moses.

1 Samuel 31:13

Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.