"When the days of weeping for him
    were passed..."

In Genesis we see it all...
    creation to destruction...
    chaos to paradise...
    tenderness to brutality...
    brotherliness to murder...
    fidelity to incest...
    awe to drunkenness...
    worship to irreverence...
    birth to death...
    joy to sorrow.

Jacob dies and Joseph grieves...
    the heart hurts...
    memories seek immortality.

We see care for the dead...
    embalming and coffin
    tomb and burial.

And we see Joseph himself...
    full of years and reality
    preparing to die.

In the beginning of Genesis
    God created...
    and in the end
    his creations die.

But not without tears.

Not without tears.