Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Genesis 50:9-12 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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

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

11. And when the inhabitants of Chanaan 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.

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