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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Abel-mizraim (Atad, perhaps between Jericho and the Jordan)
The name the Canaanites put on the threshing floor of Atad after they watched Joseph and his brothers mourn their father there for seven days. It means mourning of Egypt. Nobody knows where it was.
The name the Canaanites put on the threshing floor of Atad after they watched Joseph and his brothers mourn their father there for seven days. It means mourning of Egypt. Nobody knows where it was.
The name the Canaanites gave to the threshing floor of Atad, west of the Jordan, where Joseph and his brothers held a seven-day mourning ceremony for Jacob on their way to bury him in Canaan (Genesis 50:11). The name means "mourning of Egypt," and its exact site is unknown.
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- Genesis 50:11
