Genesis 50:12 — Bible Verse (KJV)

Genesis 50:12 in Context — Genesis 50

¹⁰ And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

¹¹ And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel–mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

¹² And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

¹³ For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

¹⁴ And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

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What Does Genesis 50:12 Mean?

Genesis 50:12 is a verse from the Book of Genesis, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Genesis chapter 50. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.