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J A N U A R Y
May the Lord answer all your
prayers.
Now I know that the Lord rescues
his anointed king.
He will answer him from his holy
heaven
and rescue him by his great
power.
7 Some nations boast of their
chariots and horses,
but we boast in the name of the
LORD our God.
8 Those nations will fall down and
collapse,
but we will rise up and stand
firm.
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Give victory to our king, O Lord!
Answer our cry for help.
20:2 Hebrew Zion.
PROVERBS 4:20-27
My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words. Don’t lose
sight of them. Let them penetrate deep
into your heart, for they bring life to
those who find them, and healing to
their whole body. ¨ Guard your heart
above all else, for it determines the
course of your life. ¨ Avoid all perverse
talk; stay away from corrupt speech.
¨ Look straight ahead, and fix your eyes
on what lies before you. Mark out a
straight path for your feet; stay on the
safe path. Don’t get sidetracked; keep
your feet from following evil.
J A N U A R Y
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JANUARY
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GENESIS 50:1—EXODUS 2:10
Joseph threw himself on his father and
wept over him and kissed him. 2 Then
Joseph told the physicians who served
him to embalm his father’s body; so Jacob* was embalmed. 3 The embalming
process took the usual forty days. And
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the Egyptians mourned his death for
seventy days.
4When the period of mourning was
over, Joseph approached Pharaoh’s advisers and said, “Please do me this favor
and speak to Pharaoh on my behalf. 5 Tell
him that my father made me swear an
oath. He said to me, ‘Listen, I am about to
die. Take my body back to the land of
Canaan, and bury me in the tomb I prepared for myself.’ So please allow me to
go and bury my father. After his burial, I
will return without delay.”
6Pharaoh agreed to Joseph’s request.
“Go and bury your father, as he made you
promise,” he said. 7So Joseph went up to
bury his father. He was accompanied by
all of Pharaoh’s officials, all the senior
members of Pharaoh’s household, and
all the senior officers of Egypt. 8 Joseph
also took his entire household and his
brothers and their households. But they
left their little children and flocks and
herds in the land of Goshen. 9A great
number of chariots and charioteers accompanied Joseph.
10When they arrived at the threshing
floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they
held a very great and solemn memorial
service, with a seven-day period ofmourning for Joseph’s father. 11The local residents, the Canaanites, watched them
mourning at the threshing floor of Atad.
Then they renamed that place (which is
near the Jordan) Abel-mizraim,* for they
said, “This is a place of deep mourning
for these Egyptians.”
12 So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them. 13 They carried his body
to the land of Canaan and buried him in
the cave in the field of Machpelah, near
Mamre. This is the cave that Abraham
had bought as a permanent burial site
from Ephron the Hittite.
14 After burying Jacob, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and
all who had accompanied him to his father’s burial. 15 But now that their father
was dead, Joseph’s brothers became
fearful. “Now Joseph will show his anger
and pay us back for all the wrong we did
to him,” they said.
