The Bible Study Podcast, episode 693.

Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the book of Genesis with chapter 48.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast.

I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

We continue on with Genesis 48 today,

Manasseh and Ephraim. Sometime later, Joseph was told your father is ill, so he took his two sons,

Manasa and Ephraim, along with him. When Jacob was told your son, Joseph has come to you,

Israel rallied his strength and sat up on the bed. Jacob said to Joseph, God

Almighty, appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there he blessed me. And said to me,

I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples,

and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.

"'Now then your two sons born to you in Egypt, before I came to you, will be reckoned as mine.

"'Ibrahim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Rubin and Simeon are mine.

"'Any children born to you after them will be yours.

"'In the territory they inherit, they will be reckoned under the names of their brothers.

As I was returning from Padan to my sorrow, Rachel died in the land of Canaan, while we were still on the way, a little distance from Ephrath.

So I buried her there beside the road to Ephraith, that is, Bethlehem. When Israel saw the

sons of Joseph, he asked, who are these? They are the sons God has given me here. Joseph said to his father.

Then Israel said, bring them to me so I may bless them. Now Israel's eyes were failing because of old age and he could hardly see.

So Joseph brought his sons close to him and his father kissed them and embraced them.

Israel then said to Joseph, I never expected to see your face again and now God has allowed me to see

your children too. Then Joseph removed them from Israel's knee and bowed down with his face to the

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