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17 When Joseph saw that his father placed his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he grasped his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. 18 And Joseph said to his father, |Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.| 19 But 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 descendants will become a multitude of nations.| 20 So he blessed them that day, saying, |By you Israel will pronounce blessing, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’| Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh. 21 Then Israel said to Joseph, |Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you, and God will bring you back from this land to the land of your fathers. 22 Moreover, I give to you one portion more than your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.| Genesis 48:17-22, New Heart English Bible. Public domain.
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