Threshing Floor Of Atad

And he observed seven days mourning for his father.

Threshing floor of atad.

And he observed seven days mourning for his father. New king james version. Joseph with his kinsmen and egyptian followers halted for seven days at the threshing floor of atad to lament the death of jacob genesis 50 10. 10 threshingfloor of atad.

Green literal translation and they came as far as the threshing floor of thorns which is on the other side of the jordan. Scripture quoted by permission. Atad means a thorn bush the rhamnus paliurus of linnaeus translated bramble in judges 9 14. As agriculture was only beginning to be practised in canaan this threshing.

Genesis 50 10 11 when they reached the threshing floor of atad near the jordan they lamented loudly and bitterly. Floor would be common property situated in some place easy of access and probably a village would grow up near it. And there joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father. Then they came to the threshing floor of atad which is beyond the jordan and they mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation.

They came to the threshing floor of atad c atad may be taken as a common noun signifying the plain of the thorn bushes. Quotations designated niv are from the holy bible. New american standard bible. Genesis 50 10 when they came to the threshing floor of atad which is beyond the jordan they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation.

When they arrived at the threshing floor of atad near the jordan river they held a very great and solemn memorial service with a seven day period of mourning for joseph s father. February 3 1958 1958 a nd they came to the threshing floor of atad which is beyond jordan and they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation and he joseph made a mourning for his father. When they came to the threshing floor of atad which is beyond the jordan they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation. And he observed seven days mourning for his father.

The location and method of making threshing floors have already been described under agriculture. When the canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of atad they said the egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning that is why that place near the jordan is called abel mizraim. Probably there was a group of floors furnishing a convenient spot for a caravan to stop.