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1 After this Joseph was told, "Behold, your father is ill"; so he took with him his two sons, Manas'seh and E'phraim.
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1 Some time later Joseph was told, "Your father is ill." So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him.
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2 And it was told to Jacob, "Your son Joseph has come to you"; then Israel summoned his strength, and sat up in bed.
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2 When Jacob was told, "Your son Joseph has come to you," Israel rallied his strength and sat up on the bed.
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3 And Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,
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3 Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there he blessed me
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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 descendants after you for an everlasting possession.'
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4 and said to me, 'I am going to make you fruitful and will increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.'
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5 And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; E'phraim and Manas'seh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.
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5 "Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
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6 And the offspring born to you after them shall be yours; they shall be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
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6 Any children born to you after them will be yours; in the territory they inherit they will be reckoned under the names of their brothers.
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| Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version - Holy Bible) |
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