New Revised Standard Version
Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Contemporary English Version
They buried the bones under a small tree in Jabesh, and for seven days, they went without eating to show their sorrow.

New American Bible
Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they took their bones, and buried them in the wood of Jabes: and fasted seven days.

And they took their bones, and buried them in the wood of Jabes: and fasted seven days.

their bones

Genesis 35:8 At the same time Debora, the nurse of Rebecca, died, and was buried at the foot of Bethel, under an oak, and the name of that place was called, The oak of weeping.

2 Samuel 2:4,5 And the men of Juda came, and anointed David there, to be king over the house of Juda. And it was told David that the men of Jabes Galaad had buried Saul. . . .

2 Samuel 21:12-14 And David went, and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabes Galaad, who had stolen them from the street of Bethsan, where the Philistines had hanged them when they had slain Saul in Gelboe. . . .

fasted seven

Genesis 50:10 And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.