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When Jacob was told, ‘Your son Joseph has come to you’, he[a] summoned his strength and sat up in bed. And Jacob said to Joseph, ‘God Almighty[b] appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and he blessed me, and said to me, “I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers; I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for a perpetual holding.”

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  1. Genesis 48:2 Heb Israel
  2. Genesis 48:3 Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai

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