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Genesis 50 – Jacob’s Burial & Joseph’s Death
January 12, 2026
Jacob's sons brought their father's body up from Egypt to Canaan and buried him in the Cave of Machpelah per Jacob's final wishes. Afterward, Joseph and his brothers returned to Egypt where Joseph died aged 110. Before he died, Joseph called his brothers to him and foretold that God would one day bring the nation of Israel back from Egypt to Canaan. Joseph directed them to bring his own bones up from Egypt with them and bury him in Canaan. Then Joseph died and was placed in a coffin in Egypt until the day God brought His people up from Egypt.
Genesis 49 – Jacob’s Dying Blessings
January 11, 2026
After blessing Ephraim and Manasseh the sons of Joseph, Jacob called his twelve sons to him, and pronounced blessings, chastisements, and prophecies upon them. Once he had done so, Jacob directed his sons not to bury him in Egypt but to bring his body back to Canaan and bury him in the cave of Machpelah which Abraham had purchased centuries before as a burial place for his family. After giving his final wishes to his sons, Jacob died at the age of 147.
Genesis 47:27-48:22 – Israel Blesses Ephraim & Manasseh
January 10, 2026
Just before he died, Jacob called his son Joseph to his bedside along with Joseph's sons Manasseh and Ephraim. Jacob began by claiming Ephraim and Manasseh as his own - making them co-heirs with Joseph's brothers who became founders of tribes of Israel in their own right. This leads to considerable confusion in listings of the 12 tribes of Israel found later in God's Word. Although Manasseh was the firstborn of Joseph, Jacob gave his younger brother Ephraim preeminence over Manasseh in his blessing. Over a century earlier, Jacob had conspired with his mother Rebekah to deceive his own father Isaac into giving the firstborn blessing and birthright to Jacob over his elder twin brother Esau.
Genesis 46:31-47:26 – Israel Settles in Egypt
January 9, 2026
After his family journeyed to the land of Goshen in Egypt, Joseph brought five of his brothers and his father Jacob before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh, who invited the family to settle in Goshen. During the final five years of the famine, Joseph acting in Pharaoh's behalf nationalized the entire economy of Egypt - accepting first all the people's money, then their livestock, and finally their land and their servitude for Pharaoh in exchange for the food that had been stored during the preceding seven years of plenty. The statute Joseph enacted making the people Pharaoh's servants applied equally to native Egyptians and to the Israelites sojourning in the land of Goshen.
Genesis 45:1-46:30 – Jacob’s Family Reunited
January 8, 2026
Joseph finally revealed his true identity to his brothers, and sent them back to Canaan to bring Jacob and the rest of the family down to Egypt. When they arrived, they settled in the land of Goshen along the eastern fringe of the Nile delta.