taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.(A)

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10 When they reached the threshing floor(A) of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly;(B) and there Joseph observed a seven-day period(C) of mourning(D) for his father.(E)

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