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Genesis 50:10

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When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

KJV

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.

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This verse in Genesis 50

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The threshing-floor of Atad - As אטד atad signifies a bramble or thorn, it has been understood by the Arabic, not as a man’s name, but as the name of a place; but all the other versions and the Targums consider it as the name of a man. Threshing-floors were always in a field, in the open air; and Atad was probably what we would call a great farmer or chief of some clan or tribe in that place. Jerome supposed the place to have been about two leagues from Jericho; but we have no certain information on this point.

This site's exposition

the threshing floor of Atad

on Genesis 50:10-11

Seven days of mourning are kept at the threshing floor of Atad, across the Jordan, and the Canaanites who watch call it a ceremony of the Egyptians. Adam Clarke sets out the old question whether Atad is a man's name or the thornbush the word means. The place keeps the name Abel-mizraim, the mourning of Egypt.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

John Chrysostom

HOMILIES ON GENESIS 67.17 · Written in the 5th century.

proposed

For your part, however, dearly beloved, don't simply pass this by on hearing it; instead, consider the time when it happened and absolve Joseph of all blame. I mean, the gates of the underworld were still not broken or the bonds of death loosed. Nor was death yet called sleep. Hence, because they feared death, they acted this way; today, on the contrary, thanks to the grace of God, since death has been turned into slumber and life's end into repose and since there is great certitude of resurrection, we rejoice and exult at death like people moving from one life to another. Why do I say from one life to another? From a worse to a better, from a temporary to an eternal, from an earthly to a heavenly.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, 17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father.

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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

This, as our sages of blessed memory say, took place after they interred Jacob. 6 What I.E.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Genesis 50:10:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 7 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּבֹ֜אוּand they came

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • עַד־to

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • גֹּ֣רֶן[the] threshing floor of

    gorenH1637 →

  • הָאָטָ֗ד<the> Atad

    haatadH329 →

  • אֲשֶׁר֙which

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בְּעֵ֣בֶר[is] on [the] other side of

    beeverH5676 →

  • הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ןthe Jordan

    haiyardenH3383 →182 times

  • וַיִּ֨סְפְּדוּ־and they lamented

    vaiyispedu-H5594 →

  • שָׁ֔םthere

    shamH8033 →834 times

  • מִסְפֵּ֛דa lament

    mispedH4553 →

  • גָּד֥וֹלgreat

    gadolH1419 →526 times

  • וְכָבֵ֖דand heavy

    vekhavedH3515 →41 times

  • מְאֹ֑דvery

    meodH3966 →300 times

  • וַיַּ֧עַשׂand he made

    vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times

  • לְאָבִ֛יוfor father his

    leavivH1 →1212 times

  • אֵ֖בֶלmourning

    ʾevelH60 →24 times

  • שִׁבְעַ֥תseven

    shivatH7651 →394 times

  • יָמִֽים׃days

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

14 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Job 2:13Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.9 worksDeuteronomy 34:8The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.7 worksActs 8:2God-fearing men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.6 works2 Samuel 1:17Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,5 works1 Samuel 31:13Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.5 worksEzekiel 3:15I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed.4 works
The other 8 cross-references, with their words ▾
Genesis 50:4When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh that3 worksDeuteronomy 1:1These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—in the Arabah opposite Suph—between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.3 worksNumbers 19:11Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.3 worksGenesis 50:11When 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.3 works1 Chronicles 10:12all their men of valor set out and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.2 worksGenesis 23:2She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.2 worksGenesis 50:3taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.2 works1 Samuel 1:10In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.0 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Job 2:13

    Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 1:4

      When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

    • Ezekiel 3:15

      I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed.

    • Isaiah 3:26

      And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

    • Ezra 9:3

      When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down in horror.

    • Job 4:2

      “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?

  • Through

    2 Samuel 1:17

    Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 35:25

      Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in…

    • 2 Samuel 1:19

      “Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!

  • Through

    1 Samuel 31:13

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

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 21:12–14

      he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies…

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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Chrysostom, HOMILIES ON GENESIS 67.17; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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