Holy Scripture

Genesis 50:10

A church father on this verse
“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 ac…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 67.17

Source: Septuagint

Original

10And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and they bewailed him with a great and very sore lamentation; and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

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In context

8And all the household of Joseph, and his brethren, and all the house of his father, and his kindred; and they left behind the sheep and the oxen in the land of Goshen.

9And there went up with him also chariots and horsemen; and there was a very great company.

— Genesis 50:10 —

11And the inhabitants of the land of Canaan saw the mourning at the floor of Atad, and said, This is a great mourning to the Egyptians; therefore he called its name, The mourning of Egypt, which is beyond Jordan.

12And thus his sons did to him.

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