{"id":13731,"date":"2018-12-22T08:30:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=13731"},"modified":"2018-12-22T08:30:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T16:30:27","slug":"the-corpse-of-jacob-shows-the-way-to-the-promised-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/22\/the-corpse-of-jacob-shows-the-way-to-the-promised-land\/","title":{"rendered":"The Corpse of Jacob Shows the Way to the Promised Land?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Exodus-Major-Events-Map-800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13732\" src=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Exodus-Major-Events-Map-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Exodus-Major-Events-Map-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Exodus-Major-Events-Map-800-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Exodus-Major-Events-Map-800-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Exodus-Major-Events-Map-800-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Genesis 50:11, <i>Beyond the Jordan.<\/i><\/b> <i>Beyond <\/i>is the Hebrew<i> <\/i>word <i>eber<\/i> meaning \u201cacross.\u201d This was the roundabout way of reaching Machpelah.<\/p>\n<p>The Jewish and Christian commentaries I have studied don\u2019t give a good reason for Jacob\u2019s burial entourage taking this most indirect route to the burial cave of the patriarchs.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible that Jacob was, out of faith in the promises of Elohim, prophetically tracing the steps his descendants would take several generations later in entering the Promised Land. It\u2019s almost as if Jacob was showing the future generations of Israelites the route he wanted them to take from Egypt to the Promised Land to fulfill biblical types and shadows.<\/p>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'The Corpse of Jacob Shows the Way to the Promised Land?',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/22\/the-corpse-of-jacob-shows-the-way-to-the-promised-land\/',contentID: 'post-13731',suggestTags: 'Jacob,Promised Land',providerName: 'Hoshana Rabbah Blog',styling: 'text' });return false\" class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryLink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.evernote.com\/article-clipper.png\" \nclass=\"evernoteSiteMemoryButton\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryClear\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis 50:11, Beyond the Jordan. Beyond is the Hebrew word eber meaning \u201cacross.\u201d This was the roundabout way of reaching Machpelah. The Jewish and Christian commentaries I have studied don\u2019t give a good reason for Jacob\u2019s burial entourage taking this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/22\/the-corpse-of-jacob-shows-the-way-to-the-promised-land\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64],"tags":[19,475],"class_list":["post-13731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-readings","tag-jacob","tag-promised-land"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Corpse of Jacob Shows the Way to the Promised Land? | Hoshana Rabbah Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/22\/the-corpse-of-jacob-shows-the-way-to-the-promised-land\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Corpse of Jacob Shows the Way to the Promised Land? | Hoshana Rabbah Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Genesis 50:11, Beyond the Jordan. 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