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 Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
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- Atad Place
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Buckthorn, a place where Joseph and his brethren, when on their way from Egypt to Hebron with the remains of their father Jacob. Modern identification: near the mouth of the Jordan River.
- Jordan Place
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Biblical river. Modern identification: Jordan River.
- Abel-mizraim Place
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Meadow of Egypt, or mourning of Egypt, a place “beyond,” i. e., on the west of Jordan, at the “threshing-floor of Atad. ” Here the Egyptians mourned seventy days for Jacob ( Gen. 50:4-11 ). Its site is unknown. Modern identification: near the mouth of the Jordan River.