“And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.”
And he rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. Joseph's third act of immediate obedience — he rose and went. The land of Israel is the promised land, the covenant space where the story has always been heading. The return from Egypt to Israel completes the Hosea 11:1 pattern: the son has been called out of Egypt, and now he enters the land that is his inheritance as son of David, son of Abraham, and son of God. The journey that began with a genealogy (chapter 1) and passed through a manger, a star, a massacre, and an exile now arrives at the beginning of the land where the rest of the story will unfold.
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