Joseph, the Southern lad, returns home with his
Northern bride.
We don’t know whether that is ‘home’ to his mum
and dad, or ‘home’ to more distant relatives: it matters not – either way, they
are welcomed in. It is inconceivable within the Code of Middle Eastern family
that it should be otherwise.
The small guest room does not have enough room.
We don’t know whether that is not enough room for
Joseph and Mary to sleep in, because there were already other guests; or simply
not enough room for Mary to give birth in – that they stayed in the guest room,
but she laboured in the main room, the room the family and their animals slept
in, altogether.
But we do know that this is a familiar story.
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