Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

a solemn oath from the children of Israel that they would carry his
bones with them back to the land of Canaan. "So Joseph died, being
one hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was
put in a coffin in Egypt."
Through the following centuries of toil, that coffin testified to
Israel that they were only staying in Egypt temporarily. It called
them to keep their hopes fixed on the Land of Promise, for the time
of deliverance would surely come.
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