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January 25
PROVERBS 4:2027
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Avoid all perverse talk;
stay away from corrupt
speech.
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25
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.
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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.
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Lord, it was leaders who plotted against Jesus, who
rallied people against their one true hope. Protect our
nation from leaders who point us in the wrong direction.
Protect us from choosing poorly whom we’ll follow. Amen.
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 the Egyptians mourned his death
for seventy days.
4 When 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.”
6 Pha
raoh agreed to Jo
seph’s request. “Go and bury your father, as
he made you promise,” he said. 7 So
Joseph went up to bury his father.
He was accompanied by all of Pha
raoh’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.
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But they left their little children and
flocks and herds in the land of Goshen. 9 A great number of c hariots and
charioteers accompanied Joseph.
10 When 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 of mourning for Joseph’s father.
11 The 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 Machpe
lah, near Mamre. This is the cave that
Abraham had bought as a permanent
burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
14 After burying Jacob, Jo
seph 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.
