- 迦南的居民、見亞達禾場上的哀哭、就說、這是埃及人一場大的哀哭、因此那地方名叫亞伯麥西、是在約但河東。
- 雅各的兒子們、就遵著他父親所吩咐的辦了、
- 把他搬到迦南地、葬在幔利前、麥比拉田間的洞裡.那洞和田、是亞伯拉罕向赫人以弗崙買來為業作墳地的。
- 約瑟葬了他父親以後、就和眾弟兄、並一切如他上去葬他父親的人、都回埃及去了。
- 約瑟的哥哥們見父親死了、就說、或者約瑟懷恨我們、照著我們從前待他一切的惡、足足的報復我們。
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- 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.
- So Jacob's sons did as he had commanded them:
- They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite, along with the field.
- After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father.
- When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?"
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