Genesis 50 --- Joseph buries his father in Canaan, and lives to a great age before making the Israelites promise to bury him in Canaan too

Read Genesis 50

- V1-14, with so many Israelites making this journey to bury Israel in the land of Canaan, why do you think this opportunity wasn’t taken to move everyone back to the promised land at this time?...do you think Joseph felt responsible to continue to serve Pharaoh?...or reluctant to leave a comfortable life with high status?...or are there other possible reasons you can identify?

- V24-26, Joseph still believed in the promise of the return to the promised land in Canaan, but, unlike his father Israel, he does not ask to be buried back in their homeland immediately, but to be taken when the Israelites left Egypt together. Why do you think he made this different request?...was it more of a request which demonstrated faith in God’s promises?...was he expecting the Israelites to leave Egypt soon?...or was it the opposite perhaps?...would his body’s presence in Egypt (embalmed in a coffin) be intended to be for the benefit of the Egyptians to remind them of their debt to Joseph?