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Genesis 47:28-31, “And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the length of Jacob’s life was 147 years. When the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, ‘Now if I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me.



Please do not bury me in Egypt, but let me lie with my fathers; you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.’ And Joseph said, ‘I will do as you have said.’ Then Jacob said, ‘Swear to me.’ And Joseph swore to him. So Israel bowed himself on the head of the bed.”



It’s amazing to consider, but Jacob has “lived in the land of Egypt” an astounding “seventeen years” - almost as much time as he’d spent in Haran serving in the home of his father-in-law Laban. Jacob is now 147 years old and is sensing his time coming to an end… Jacob knows he’s going to die soon, and yet there are a few loose ends he still needs to take care of.



With this in mind, Jacob calls his son Joseph to himself and makes him swear “not to bury him in Egypt,” but to take his body back to Canaan so that he might “lie with his fathers.” Though Jacob has lived in Egypt for 17 years, Egypt had never become his home. Jacob’s heart has always remained in the Promised Land - which is why he wants to be buried there.



Genesis 48:1, “Now it came to pass after these things that Joseph was told, ‘Indeed your father is sick’; and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.”



Following the earlier exchange it doesn’t take long for Jacob’s health to deteriorate. Joseph receives word that his “father was sick” leading him to come immediately with “his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim.” Joseph is now 56 years old and his sons are in their early 20’s.



Before we continue it should be pointed out that in recounting the lives of the great men and women of faith in the Old Testament, the author of Hebrews makes this one and only comment about the life of Jacob. He writes in Hebrews 11:21, “By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.”



How interesting that the one moment in Jacob’s life memorialized for all time was not the dream he'd received in Bethel nor the time he wrestled with Jesus in Jabbok, but this intimate scene at the end of his life when he blesses the two sons of Joseph! It’s amazing, but this chapter records the pinnacle of Jacob’s faith… It’s his greatest moment!



Genesis 48:2-4, “And Jacob was told, ‘Look, your son Joseph is coming to you’; and Israel strengthened himself and sat up on the bed. Then Jacob said to Joseph: ‘God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me, and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession.’”

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