Today is the 25th day of January. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is

fantastic to be here with you today as we take the next step forward together on

the adventure that we have embarked on 25 days ago. We're 25. Well, once we read

today, we'll be 25 days into our year. This is a day of a bit of transition. We will finish

our first full book of the Bible today and then move forward. So we will be doing that right

now. Finish the book of Genesis and then we'll get into the second book of the Bible, the book

of Exodus. And we'll talk about Exodus when we get there, but we got one chapter of Genesis

to finish up the book. And one last thing before we get going, we will be going to the land of

the Bible here in less well about a week and a half. And a bunch of us will be there actually

in person and the rest of us will be traveling virtually, but hang out until the end today,

because we'll be talking about Israel 2024 next year. But let's dive into the scriptures now.

And if we will recall, we say goodbye to Jacob. And we remember his name was changed to Israel,

which is where we get this name Israel. And Israel's children are the children of Israel.

We say goodbye to Jacob yesterday as he passed from the story and into history.

Today we finish the book of Genesis with chapter 50.

Joseph fell across his father's body, wept over him and kissed him. Joseph then ordered the

physicians in his service to embalm his father and the physicians embalmed Israel. They mourned for

him 40 days because that is the period required for embalming. Then the Egyptians mourned him for

70 days. After the period of mourning had passed, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh's household.

If you approve my request, give Pharaoh this message. My father made me promise telling me,

I'm about to die. You must bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.

Now let me leave and let me bury my father. And then I will return.

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