There is the refrain, “God meant it for the good, to achieve his present end, the survival of my people” (50:20). Joseph finds himself a powerful man in the land of Egypt. Sold as a slave by his brothers, he is presumed dead by his Father, Jacob. The final fourteen chapters of Genesis are the story of Joseph. How can creation not love the creator? How can it not love the rest of creation? Things get bad: Cain and Able, Sodom and Gomorrah, the flood and the Tower of Babel. We have wondrous beginnings indeed, but it lasts only two chapters! The other forty-eight chapters are taken up with a great mystery. We may think of creation when we hear the Book of Genesis. Joseph himself cries each of the four days, as do his brothers with him today. It’s ending is the ending of the story of Joseph, which we have read for four days a profoundly meaningful and tender story, hard to read without a tear.
We conclude today our reading of the Book of Genesis.
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