Genesis 50:10 (DRB)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

Genesis 50:8 And the house of Joseph with his brethren, except their children, and their flocks and herds, which they left in the land of Gessen.

Genesis 50:9 He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was a great company.

Genesis 50:10 And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.

Genesis 50:11 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.

Genesis 50:12 So the sons of Jacob did as he had commanded them.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "came", "threshing", "floor", "atad", "situated", "beyond", "jordan", and "where". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "came" and "threshing", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "He had also in his train chariots..." into verse 11's "And when the inhabitants of Chanaan saw...", so "came" and "threshing" belong inside that flow. In Genesis context, the local focus is creation, human rebellion, covenant promise, and God's providence.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "came" and "threshing" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.