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About death, I go through different moods, but the times when I can desire it are never, I think, those when this world seems harshest. On the contrary, it is just when there seems to be most of Heaven already here that I come nearest to longing for the patria. It is the bright frontispiece [which] whets one to read the story itself. All joy (as distinct from mere pleasure, still more amusement) emphasises our pilgrim status: always reminds, beckons, awakes desire. Our best havings are wantings.

—from a letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB, November 5, 1954

For reflection Genesis 49:33–50:3

²⁵ by the God of your father, who will help you,

by the Almighty [170] who will bless you

with blessings of heaven above,

blessings of the deep that lies beneath,

blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

²⁶ The blessings of your father

are stronger than the blessings of the eternal mountains,

the bounties [171] of the everlasting hills;

may they be on the head of Joseph,

on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.

²⁷ Benjamin is a ravenous wolf,

in the morning devouring the prey,

and at evening dividing the spoil.”

28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, blessing each one of them with a suitable blessing.

29 Then he charged them, saying to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors—in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, ³⁰in the cave in the field at Machpelah, near Mamre, in the land of Canaan, in the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site. ³¹There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried; there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried; and there I buried Leah— ³²the field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.” ³³When Jacob ended his charge to his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

50 Then Joseph threw himself on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him. ²Joseph commanded the physicians in his service to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel; ³they spent forty days in doing this, for that is the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

4 When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph addressed the household of Pharaoh, “If now I have found favor with you, please speak to Pharaoh as follows: ⁵My father made me swear an oath; he said, ‘I am about to die. In the tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.’ Now therefore let me go up, so that I may bury my father; then I will return.” ⁶Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”

7 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, ⁸as 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. ⁹Both chariots and charioteers went up with him. It was a very great company. ¹⁰When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed a time of mourning for his father seven days. ¹¹When the Canaanite inhabitants of the land saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning on the part of the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim; [172] it is beyond the Jordan. ¹²Thus his sons did for him as he had instructed them. ¹³They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, the field near Mamre, which Abraham bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite. ¹⁴After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.

15 Realizing that their father was dead, Joseph’s brothers said, “What if Joseph still bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong that we did to him?” ¹⁶So they approached [173] Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this instruction before he died, ¹⁷“Say to Joseph: I beg you, forgive the crime of your brothers and the wrong they did in harming you.’ Now therefore please forgive the crime of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him. ¹⁸Then his brothers also wept,[174] fell down before him, and said, “We are here as your slaves.” ¹⁹But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid! Am I in the place of God? ²⁰Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today. ²¹So have no fear; I myself will provide for you and your little ones.” In this way he reassured them, speaking kindly to them.

22 So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father’s household; and Joseph lived one hundred ten years. ²³Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation; the children of Machir son of Manasseh were also born on Joseph’s knees.

24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die; but God will surely come to you, and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” ²⁵So Joseph made the Israelites swear, saying, “When God comes to you, you shall carry up my bones from here.” ²⁶And Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old; he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

[1] Or when God began to create or In the beginning God created

[2] Or while the spirit of God or while a mighty wind

[3] Heb adam

[4] Syr: Heb and over all the earth

[5] Heb him

[6] Heb YHWH, as in other places where “LORD” is spelled with capital letters (see also Ex 3.14–15 with notes)

[7] Or formed a man (Heb adam) of dust from the ground (Heb adamah)

[8] Or for Adam

[9] Heb ishshah

[10] Heb ish

[11] Or gods

[12] Or to Adam

[13] InHeb Eve resembles the word for living

[14] Or for Adam

[15] Theverb in Heb resembles the word for Cain

[16] SamGk Syr Compare Vg: MT lacks Let us go out to the field

[17] GkSyr Vg: Heb Therefore

[18] That is Wandering

[19] Theverb in Heb resembles the word for Seth

[20] Heb adam

[21] Heb him

[22] Meaning of Heb uncertain

[23] Or window

[24] Gk: Heb adds every animal of the earth

[25] Heb yapht, a play on Japheth

[26] Heb Mss Sam Gk See 1 Chr 1.7: MT Dodanim

[27] Compare verses 20, 31. Heb lacks These are the descendants of Japheth

[28] Cn: Heb Casluhim, from which the Philistines come, and Caphtorim

[29] That is Division

[30] Or migrated eastward

[31] Heb balal, meaning to confuse

[32] Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves

[33] Or terebinth

[34] Heb seed

[35] Heb seed

[36] Or terebinths

[37] Heb Salt Sea

[38] Or terebinths

[39] Heb El Elyon

[40] Meaning of Heb uncertain

[41] Heb he

[42] Heb he

[43] That is God hears

[44] Perhaps God of seeing or God who sees

[45] Meaning of Heb uncertain

[46] That is the Well of the Living One who sees me

[47] Heb Abram

[48] Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai

[49] That is exalted ancestor

[50] Here taken to mean ancestor of a multitude

[51] Heb seed

[52] That is he laughs

[53] Heb him

[54] Or terebinths

[55] Heb seahs

[56] Or and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by him

[57] Heb known

[58] Another ancient tradition reads while the LORD remained standing before Abraham

[59] Gk Syr Vg: Heb he

[60] That is Little

[61] Gk Vg: Heb lacks with her son Isaac

[62] That is Well of seven or Well of the oath

[63] Heb He

[64] Or the LORD, El Olam

[65] Or to slaughter

[66] Or will see; Heb traditionally transliterated Jehovah Jireh

[67] Or he shall be seen

[68] Syr Tg: Heb from coming to

[69] Meaning of Heb word is uncertain

[70] Heb he fell

[71] Or down in opposition to

[72] Syr: Meaning of Heb uncertain

[73] That is He takes by the heel or He supplants

[74] That is Red

[75] Heb today

[76] Heb him

[77] That is Contention

[78] That is Enmity

[79] That is Broad places or Room

[80] A word resembling the word for oath

[81] That is Well of the oath or Well of seven

[82] Cn: Heb of all

[83] That is He supplants or He takes by the heel

[84] Or See, of

[85] Or and of

[86] Meaning of Heb uncertain

[87] Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai

[88] Or stairway or ramp

[89] Or stood above it

[90] Or shall bless themselves

[91] That is House of God

[92] Heb He

[93] Meaning of Heb uncertain

[94] Heb him

[95] That is See, a son

[96] Heb shama

[97] Heb lawah

[98] Heb hodah

[99] That is He judged

[100] Heb niphtal

[101] That is Fortune

[102] That is Happy

[103] Heb sakar

[104] Heb zabal

[105] That is He adds

[106] Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain

[107] Heb the river

[108] Heb them

[109] Meaning of Heb uncertain

[110] In Aramaic The heap of witness

[111] In Hebrew The heap of witness

[112] Compare Sam: MT lacks the pillar

[113] That is Watchpost

[114] Meaning of Heb uncertain

[115] Ch 32.1 in Heb

[116] Here taken to mean Two camps

[117] Heb he

[118] That is The one who strives with God or God strives

[119] Or with divine and human beings

[120] That is The face of God

[121] That is Booths

[122] Heb one hundred qesitah

[123] That is God, the God of Israel

[124] Heb he

[125] That is God of Bethel

[126] That is Oak of weeping

[127] Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai

[128] That is Son of my sorrow

[129] That is Son of the right hand or Son of the South

[130] SamGk Syr: Heb daughter

[131] Gk Syr: Heb daughter

[132] Or chiefs

[133] Or chiefs

[134] Meaning of Heb uncertain

[135] Or chief by chief

[136] Traditional rendering (compare Gk): a coat of many colors; meaning of Heb uncertain

[137] See note on 37.3

[138] Gk:Heb He

[139] Heb when Judah was comforted

[140] That is A breach

[141] That is Brightness; perhaps alluding to the crimson thread

[142] Heb he

[143] Gk Syr Vg: Heb lacks I fell asleep a second time

[144] Abrek, apparently an Egyptian word similar in sound to the Hebrew word meaning to kneel

[145] Sam Gk: MT the seven years that were

[146] That is Making to forget

[147] From a Hebrew word meaning to be fruitful

[148] Gk Vg Compare Syr: Heb opened all that was in (or, among) them

[149] Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai

[150] Heb the man

[151] GkCompare Vg: Heb lacks Why have you stolen my silver cup?

[152] Or be agitated

[153] Heb the God

[154] Or Saul

[155] Compare Sam Gk Num 26.24; 1 Chr 7.1: MT Iob

[156] Gk: Heb Hushim

[157] Heb He

[158] Sam Gk Compare Vg: MT He removed them to the cities

[159] Heb Israel

[160] Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai

[161] Heb from his knees

[162] you here is singular in Heb

[163] Or mountain slope (Heb shekem, a play on the name of the town and district of Shechem)

[164] Gk Syr Tg: Heb he

[165] Or until Shiloh comes or until he comes to Shiloh or (with Syr) until he comes to whom it belongs

[166] Gk Vg Syr: Heb From Asher

[167] Or that gives beautiful words

[168] Meaning of Heb uncertain

[169] Heb the arms of his hands

[170] Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

[171] Cn Compare Gk: Heb of my progenitors to the boundaries

[172] That is mourning (or meadow) of Egypt

[173] Gk Syr: Heb they commanded

[174] Cn: Heb also came