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Now, your two sons born to you in the land of Egypt before I arrived in Egypt are my own. Ephraim and Manasseh are just like Reuben and Simeon to me. Your family who is born to you after them are yours, but their inheritance will be determined under their brothers’ names. When I came back from Paddan-aram,[a] Rachel died, to my sorrow, on the road in the land of Canaan, with some distance yet to go to Ephrathah, so I buried her there near the road to Ephrathah,[b] which is Bethlehem.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 48:7 Sam, LXX, Syr; MT lacks aram.
  2. Genesis 48:7 Sam; MT Ephrath

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