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Summary
Genesis 50:6 - 50:7 - 50:8 - 50:9 - 50:10 - 50:11 - 50:12 - 50:13

50:6. Pharaoh said to him: Go up and bury your father according to your oath to him.

50:7. So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharaoh's house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.

50:8. The house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.

50:9. He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was a great company.

50:10. They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.

'''50:11. When the inhabitants of Canaan saw this, they said: This is a great mourning to the Egyptians. And therefore the name of that place was called, The mourning of Egypt.'''

50:12. So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.

50:13. Carrying him into the land of Canaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought together with the field for a possession of a burying place, of Ehpron, the Hethite, over against Mambre.

Treasures of the Bible by Henry Davenport Northrop, D.D. published by International Publishing Company, 1894