Key verse
Matthew 10:16 - "I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves."
Genesis
Jacob was probably one of very few Hebrews to be embalmed (chapter 50)! I wonder if this process was strange to his family (excluding Joseph, of course).
Joseph's brothers had clearly not forgotten what they had done to Joseph so many years earlier. Is there evidence that they had kept the true story from their father when they found out he was alive? In any case, Joseph's forgiveness of his brothers is a good picture of the type of forgiveness we should bear toward one another, as it says in 50:21 "And he reassured them [his brothers] and spoke kindly to them."
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