The End of the Beginning

Genesis, the book of the beginning, comes in Genesis 50:26 to its end. Significantly enough the book begins with the word "In the beginning. . . ." And although it does not end with the words "at the end," or "now at the end," or a similar expression, its last verse does speak of the end of Joseph's life together with the embalming and placing of it in a coffin in Egypt. Genesis, the book of the beginning, comes in Genesis 50:26 to its end. Significantly enough the book begins with the word...