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20 So he blessed them that day, saying,

“By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying,
‘God make you as E′phraim and as Manas′seh’”;

and thus he put E′phraim before Manas′seh. 21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you, and will bring you again to the land of your fathers. 22 Moreover I have given to you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope[a] which I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 48:22 Heb shekem, shoulder

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