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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 48:19-22, New Heart English Bible. Public domain.
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