MOSES' LAST CAMPAIGN THE COMPLETE ANNIHILATION OF MIDIAN THE GRUESOME END OF BALAAM THE VICTORIOUS RETURN FROM THE WAR WEALTH THAT BRINGETH DESTRUCTION MOSES' DEATH IRREVOCABLY DOOMED MOSES' PRAYER FOR SUSPENSION OF JUDGMENT GOD TRIES TO COMFORT MOSES CONCERNING HIS DEATH THE INTERCESSIONS FOR MOSES MOSES SERVES JOSHUA THE LAST DAY OF MOSES' LIFE MOSES BEHOLDS THE FUTURE MOSES MEETS THE MESSIAH IN HEAVEN THE LAST HOURS OF MOSES THE BLESSING OF MOSES MOSES PRAYS FOR DEATH SAMAEL CHASTISED BY MOSES GOD KISSES MOSES' SOUL THE MOURNING FOR MOSES SAMAEL'S VAIN SEARCH MOSES EXCELS ALL PIOUS MEN MOSES IN THE WILDERNESS THE LONG ROUTE The exodus would have been impossible if Joseph's bones had remained behind. Therefore Moses made it his concern to seek their resting-place, while the people had but the one thought of gathering in the treasures of the Egyptians. [1] But it was not an easy matter to find Joseph's body. Moses knew that he had been interred in the mausoleum of the Egyptian kings, but there were so many other bodies there that it was impossible to identify it. Moses' mother Jochebed came to his aid. She led him to the very spot where Joseph's bones lay. As soon as he came near them, he knew them to be what he was seeking, by the fragrance they exhaled and spread around. [2] But his difficulties were not at an end. The question arose, how he was to secure possession of the remains. Joseph's coffin had been sunk far down into the ground, and he knew not how to raise it from the depths. Standing at the edge of the grave, he spoke these words. "Joseph, the time hath come whereof thou didst say, 'God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.'" No sooner had this reminder dropped from his lips than the coffin stirred and rose to the surface.