“And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.”
As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his father and wept for a long time. The reunion of Joseph and Jacob — the son mourned as dead and the father who mourned him — is the reunion the whole narrative has been building toward. The long weeping is the weeping of twenty-two years of separation resolved in a single embrace. The application: the weeping for a long time is not a brief emotional moment but the full release of the grief that has been held through all the years of separation.
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