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After Joseph said, Behold, your father is sick. And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. |
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Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh to thee. And Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. |
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And Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, |
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and said to me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people, and I will give this land to thy seed after thee, for an everlasting possession. |
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And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, like Reuben and Simeon, shall be mine; |
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And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine; They named their brothers will be called in their inheritance. |
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When I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, short of a few to Ephratah, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, which [now] Bethlehem.
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And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who is this? |
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And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me here. He said, Bring them to me, and I will bless them. |
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The eyes of Israel were dim for age; He could not see [clearly. Joseph] brought them to him, and he kissed them and embraced them. |
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And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face; but here God has let me see your children. |
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And Joseph brought them out from between his knees and bowed his face to the ground. |
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And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left, and Manasseh in his left Israel's right hand, and brought them to him. |
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But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh. With the intention to put it so his hands, although Manasseh was the firstborn. |
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And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom walked my fathers Abraham and Isaac, the God who has fed me since all my life to this day, |
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The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; It is upon them, are called by my name and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. |
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And Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim; and it displeased him. And he took his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head, |
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And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father, for this - the first-born; put on thy right hand his head. |
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But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know; and from a people, and he also shall be great; but his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. |
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And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and Manasseh. And he set Ephraim before Manasseh. |
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And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die; and God will be with you, and bring you into the land of your fathers; |
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I give thee, thy brethren, one site that I took from the Amorites with my sword hand and with my bow. |
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