A New Found Respect

Do you know how frikin' FAR it is from the Cairo area in Egypt all the way to central Israel? I now do. It is about 15 hours in an air-conditioned minibus, over paved roads, under the Suez canal, through much flatness and much mountainess, and very little waterness.

So next time you read about Joseph sending his brothers back to go get Benjamin, and then Jacob, think about what that was like sans minibus!