Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Genesis 48:6
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Any children born to you after them shall be yours, and they shall be called by the names of their brothers in the territory they inherit.
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And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, [and] shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
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Your offspring, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
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And thy issue, that thou begettest after them, shall be thine; they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
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Genesis 48
4 and told me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’
5 And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
6 Any children born to you after them shall be yours, and they shall be called by the names of their brothers in the territory they inherit.
7 Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
8 When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?”
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