“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.”
When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father. The seven-day mourning at the threshing floor of Atad — the location just east of the Jordan — is the formal mourning that precedes the final crossing into Canaan. The application: the mourning that pauses before the final entry into the covenant land is the mourning that honors the transition fully before completing it.
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