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11 When the Canaanite inhabitants of the land saw the mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad, they said, ‘This is a solemn mourning on the part of the Egyptians.’ Therefore the place is named Abel-mizraim.[a] It is across the Jordan.

12 So Jacob’s sons did for him what he had commanded them. 13 They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased as burial property from Ephron the Hethite.(A)

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  1. 50:11 = Mourning of Egypt