When the citizens of Canaan saw those people mourning at Atad, they said, "What a solemn ceremony of mourning the Egyptians are holding!" That is why the place was named Abel Mizraim.

In this book are the words that Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they were in the wilderness east of the Jordan River. They were in the Jordan Valley near Suph, between the town of Paran on one side and the towns of Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab on the other.

When the time of mourning was over, Joseph said to the king's officials, "Please take this message to the king:

Those who touch a corpse are ritually unclean for seven days.

The people of Israel mourned for him for thirty days in the plains of Moab.

Then they took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in town, and fasted for seven days.

David sang this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

Then they sat there on the ground with him for seven days and nights without saying a word, because they saw how much he was suffering.

Some devout men buried Stephen, mourning for him with loud cries.