◄ Genesis 48:6 ►
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Good News Translation
If you have any more sons, they will not be considered mine; the inheritance they get will come through Ephraim and Manasseh.

New Revised Standard Version
As for the offspring born to you after them, they shall be yours. They shall be recorded under the names of their brothers with regard to their inheritance.

Contemporary English Version
Any children you have later will be considered yours, but their inheritance will come from Ephraim and Manasseh.

New American Bible
Progeny born to you after them shall remain yours; but their heritage shall be recorded in the names of their brothers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the rest whom thou shalt have after them, shall be thine, and shall be called by the name of their brethren in their possessions.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the rest whom thou shalt have after them, shall be thine, and shall be called by the name of their brethren in their possessions.

and shall be called.

Joshua 14:4 But in their place succeeded the children of Joseph divided into two tribes, of Manasses and Ephraim: neither did the Levites receive other portion of land, but cities to dwell in, and their suburbs to feed their beasts and flocks.

Context
Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh
…5So thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt before I came hither to thee, shall be mine: Ephraim and Manasses shall be reputed to me as Ruben and Simeon. 6But the rest whom thou shalt have after them, shall be thine, and shall be called by the name of their brethren in their possessions.7For, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died from me in the land of Chanaan in the very journey, and it was spring time: and I was going to Ephrata, and I buried her near the way of Ephrata, which by another name is called Bethlehem.…
Cross References
Genesis 48:5
So thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt before I came hither to thee, shall be mine: Ephraim and Manasses shall be reputed to me as Ruben and Simeon.

Genesis 48:7
For, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died from me in the land of Chanaan in the very journey, and it was spring time: and I was going to Ephrata, and I buried her near the way of Ephrata, which by another name is called Bethlehem.

Genesis 48:5
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