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11 When the citizens of Canaan saw those people mourning at Atad, they said, “What a solemn ceremony of mourning the Egyptians are holding!” That is why the place was named Abel Mizraim.[a]

12 So Jacob's sons did as he had commanded them; 13 (A)they carried his body to Canaan and buried it in the cave at Machpelah east of Mamre in the field which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burial ground.

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  1. Genesis 50:11 This name sounds like the Hebrew for “mourning of the Egyptians.”

11 When the Canaanites(A) who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.”(B) That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.[a]

12 So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them:(C) 13 They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah,(D) near Mamre,(E) which Abraham had bought along with the field(F) as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.(G)

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  1. Genesis 50:11 Abel Mizraim means mourning of the Egyptians.