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Genesis 48:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. "
Genesis 48:21
Verse in Context
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And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
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Genesis 48:1
"And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim."
Genesis 48:2
"And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed."
Genesis 48:3
"And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed"
Genesis 48:4
"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 everlasting possession."
Genesis 48:5
"And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon,"
Genesis 48:6
"And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance."
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