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15 And he blessed Joseph and said,

“The God before whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, walked,
    The God who shepherded me all my life[a] unto this day,
16 The angel who redeemed me from all evil,
    may he bless the boys.
And through them let my name be perpetuated,[b]
    and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac.
And let them multiply into many in the midst of the earth.

17 When Joseph saw that his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, he was displeased. And he took hold of his father’s hand to remove it from the head of Ephraim over to the head of Manasseh.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 48:15 Literally “since my duration”
  2. Genesis 48:16 Or “called”