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And it came to pass after these things, that one toldJoseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his twosons,Manasseh and Ephraim.
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And one toldJacob, and said, Behold, thy sonJosephcometh unto thee: and Israelstrengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
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And Jacobsaid unto Joseph,GodAlmightyappeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
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And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlastingpossession.
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And now thy twosons,Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egyptbefore I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
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And thy issue, which thou begettestafter them, shall be thine, and shall be calledafter the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
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And as for me, when I came from Padan,Racheldied by me in the land of Canaan in the way,when yet there was but a littleway to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.