18 He said, “What pledge should I give you?”

“Your seal(A) and its cord, and the staff(B) in your hand,” she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.(C)

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18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

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31 “Swear to me,”(A) he said. Then Joseph swore to him,(B) and Israel(C) worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 47:31 Or Israel bowed down at the head of his bed

31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.

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“Speak to the Israelites and get twelve staffs(A) from them, one from the leader of each of their ancestral tribes.(B) Write the name of each man on his staff.

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Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.

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