I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph's own hand will close your eyes. The promise of presence — I will go down with you — is the promise that has accompanied Jacob from Bethel: I will be with you wherever you go. And the promise of return — I will bring you back — will be kept in Joseph's bones carried back to Canaan in Genesis 50:25. The application: the covenant presence goes to Egypt with Jacob; the covenant promise of return will be kept, if not in Jacob's lifetime then through his descendants.

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