And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and will multiply thee, and will make a great number of people of thee, and will give this land unto thy seed after thee for an [a]everlasting possession.

¶ And now thy (A)two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, which are born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came to thee into Egypt, shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

But thy lineage, which thou hast begotten after them, shall be thine: they shall be called after the names of their brethren in their inheritance.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 48:4 Which is true in the carnal Israel unto the coming of Christ, and in the spiritual forever.

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