The news of death is the only thing capable of pulling a man away from the silent machinery of his own ambition.
A reading from Genesis 48:1
Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim.
— Genesis 48:1 (en_bbe)
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Word came to Joseph.