44 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your word no one will lift hand or foot in all Egypt.”(A)

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10 “No, my lord,(A)” they answered. “Your servants have come to buy food.(B)

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16 “What can we say to my lord?(A)” Judah(B) replied. “What can we say? How can we prove our innocence?(C) God has uncovered your servants’(D) guilt. We are now my lord’s slaves(E)—we ourselves and the one who was found to have the cup.(F)

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18 Then Judah(A) went up to him and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord,(B) let me speak a word to my lord. Do not be angry(C) with your servant, though you are equal to Pharaoh himself.

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22 And to you I give one more ridge of land[a](A) than to your brothers,(B) the ridge I took from the Amorites with my sword(C) and my bow.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 48:22 The Hebrew for ridge of land is identical with the place name Shechem.

26 Your father’s blessings are greater
    than the blessings of the ancient mountains,
    than[a] the bounty of the age-old hills.(A)
Let all these rest on the head of Joseph,(B)
    on the brow of the prince among[b] his brothers.(C)

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  1. Genesis 49:26 Or of my progenitors, / as great as
  2. Genesis 49:26 Or of the one separated from

16 with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness
    and the favor of him who dwelt in the burning bush.(A)
Let all these rest on the head of Joseph,
    on the brow of the prince among[a] his brothers.(B)

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  1. Deuteronomy 33:16 Or of the one separated from

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