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Genesis 50:4-10
Joseph began to grieve his father's death last week and he had asked Pharaoh for time to go bury Jacob (Israel). Today we will see the response to that request.
Pharaoh responds saying they can go where they need to go in order to bury Jacob. Joseph went out in a procession with his Egyptian servants. All of the children of Israel went with the group, but they left their herds and flocks in Goshen. The passage tells us how it was a "great company" of mourners that traveled to the other side of the Jordon river. There, they lamented for another seven days.
Last week they talked about a forty day grieving period that the twelve tribes completed and seventy days of mourning done by the Egyptians, then today's reading talks of seven days more.
This is the last chapter of the book of Genesis and we will hear all the details of the funeral procession and where they stopped before we move on into the other books of the bible. The next book makes a jump in time some 400 years into the future. With that 400 year jump, we will see new leaders that did not remember Joseph's dream or how he ran the show to save not only Egypt, but also the surrounding lands that were able to buy food from him.
Today's reading
English
And Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.” So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen. And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company. When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father for seven days.
Hebrew
The story continues next week in Atad...
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