Psalms 19 is one of my favorite.  It is clear, short, and tells us so much about God, His Law, and us, His creation.  What is your favorite Psalm?

How peaceful it is to grow old in the middle of God's will, seeing our grand children and great grandchildren and maybe beyound.

Here in Genesis 50 we are concluding this amazing book about God, as we see Joseph forgiving his brothers for what they did to him 39 years earlier.

OK, I don't know if it was, but show me some historical document that has one?  This is a huge multi day funeral march with a seven day pause to mourn the death of WHO?  Jacob, also known as Israel, the son of Issac, the son of Abraham.  Jacob, the blessed man of the living God.  Jacob, the father of Joseph.

Jacob dies.  Joseph and all of Egypt pay the highest honors.

In this part of Genesis we have Jacob (Israel) blessing all 12 of his sons.  

Jacob blesses Joseph's sons, and elevating the second born.
Joseph is elevated to oldest too, but that would not be the line that God uses.

Only 17 years has this small tribe been in the land of Egypt, coming with very little, and now being very prosperous.  Five of those years during a famine, and then at least two years to come out of it as a land.  
Don't give up, God is not done, He is about doing a great work in our times.

Interesting passage here.
For the "government" of Egypt to feed the starving, the starving had to give up all they had, including their land and them selves.  Interesting.  Of course Egypt survived.

Joseph is the man.
Even in the mist of everything, he still has a plan, and keeps things moving.