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Genesis 48:4

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and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’

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Genesis 48:4 in other translations

and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples, and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

Genesis 48:4 · American Standard Version

Genesis 48:4 in context

  1. 2Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.
  2. 3Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
  3. 4and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’
  4. 5Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
  5. 6Your offspring, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.