Thematic Bible: Lasted many days


Thematic Bible



And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.

And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.

Then Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth, and went on weeping for his son day after day.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain