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Genesis 48

1 - After these things, someone said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is sick." He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
2 - Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you," and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.
3 - Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
4 - and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.'
5 - Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
6 - Your issue, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
7 - As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem)."
8 - Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who are these?"
9 - Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here."He said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them."
10 - Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
11 - Israel said to Joseph, "I didn't think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also."
12 - Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
13 - Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near to him.
14 - Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
15 - He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
16 - the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth."
17 - When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
18 - Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."
19 - His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations."
20 - He blessed them that day, saying, "In you will Israel bless, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh'" He set Ephraim before Manasseh.
21 - Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
22 - Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow."

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Brief Summary: Jacob tells of the appearance of God to him in Luz, Jacob adopts Ephraim and Manasseh as his own children, Jacob blesses Joseph, Jacob puts Ephraim before Manasseh, The seed of Ephraim shall become a multitude of nations, the children of Israel shall come again into the land of their fathers

Outline
1 Joseph with his sons visits his sick father
2 Jacob strengthens himself to bless them
3 Jacob repeats the promise
5 Jacob takes Ephraim and Manasseh as his own
7 Jacob tells Joseph of his mother's grave
8 Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh
17 Jacob prefers the younger before the elder
21 Jacob prophesies about their return to Canaan

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God Almighty
The Angel which redeemed me
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which I took out of the hand of the Amorite
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Abraham and Isaac
Amorite

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The land of Canaan
Padan
Ephrath
Bethlehem

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