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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.”

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