We witness the most extraordinary funeral in all of Scripture as Jacob's life comes to a close in Genesis 49. This isn't just any patriarch's passing—this is the culmination of a journey that spans more chapters than any other individual in Genesis, save God Himself. Jacob receives a state funeral that rivals anything Egypt could offer its own royalty, with all of Pharaoh's servants, elders, and a massive processional traveling hundreds of miles to honor this foreigner who became the father of a nation. What makes this moment so profound is the question it forces us to confront: how do we eulogize an enigma? Jacob was simultaneously the perpetuator of generational curses—favoring Joseph just as his own father favored Esau—and the carrier of God's covenant promises. He was slippery as an eel in his youth, scheming and conniving, yet became stable as a stone monument in his final years. His transformation from self-reliance to God-reliance offers us hope that our finish matters more than our start. Jacob's insistence on being buried in Canaan, not Egypt, reveals a man whose eyes remained fixed on God's promises even in death. His story reminds us that we serve the God of another chance, and another, and another—transforming us gradually from who we were into who He destined us to be.