translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: GEN

label: NET study note

text: Seventy days . This probably refers to a time of national mourning.


text: The location of the threshing floor of Atad is not certain. The expression the other side of the Jordan could refer to the eastern or western bank, depending on one’s perspective. However, it is commonly used in the OT for Transjordan. This would suggest that the entourage came up the Jordan Valley and crossed into the land at Jericho, just as the Israelites would in the time of Joshua.


text: The name Abel Mizraim means “the mourning of Egypt.”