Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; (A)Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as (B)Reuben and Simeon are. But your offspring that [a]have been born after them shall be yours; they shall be called by the [b]names of their brothers in their inheritance. Now as for me, when I came from (C)Paddan, (D)Rachel died, [c]to my sorrow, in the land of Canaan on the journey, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 48:6 Lit you have begotten
  2. Genesis 48:6 Lit name
  3. Genesis 48:7 Lit upon me