Genesis 50

I once asked a friend what the death rate was in his city, and he replied quietly, “One apiece.” That’s the ratio everywhere.

Death isn’t an accident, it’s an appointment (Heb. 9:27). “It’s not that I’m afraid to die,” wrote Woody Allen. “I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” But he’ll be there, and you and I will be there when it happens to us. Nobody has yet figured out how to peek into God’s appointment book and erase the date.

This chapter records three burials, two of them literal and one figurative, and all of them important.