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Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

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At´ad, the person on whose threshing-floor the sons of Jacob and the Egyptians who accompanied them performed their final act of solemn mourning for Jacob (Genesis 50:11); on which account the place was afterwards called Abel-Mizraim, 'the mourning of the Egyptians.'

 

 

 

 

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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Atad'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​a/atad.html.
 
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