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When Joseph arrived, Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to see you.” So Jacob[a] gathered his strength and sat up in his bed.

Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty[b] appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me. He said to me, ‘I will make you fruitful, and I will multiply your descendants. I will make you a multitude of nations. And I will give this land of Canaan to your descendants[c] after you as an everlasting possession.’

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Footnotes

  1. 48:2 Hebrew Israel; also in 48:8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 21. See note on 35:21.
  2. 48:3 Hebrew El-Shaddai.
  3. 48:4 Hebrew seed; also in 48:19.

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