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Atad, Threshing Floor of

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: A By: James P. Boyd

Genesis 50:10‑11

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Name changed to Abel-mizraim, which see (Gen. 50:10-11¹⁰And 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. ¹¹And 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. (Genesis 50:10‑11)).

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