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and He said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply, and I will make you an assembly of peoples, and I will give this land to your seed after you for (A)an everlasting possession.’ So now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; (B)Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as (C)Reuben and Simeon are. But your kin that [a]have been born after them shall be yours; they shall be called by the [b]names of their brothers in their inheritance.

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  1. Genesis 48:6 Lit you have begotten
  2. Genesis 48:6 Lit name

and said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers.(A) I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land(B) as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.’(C)

“Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt(D) before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine,(E) just as Reuben(F) and Simeon(G) are mine. 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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