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Genesis 48:6
Genesis 48:6 is verse 6 of Genesis chapter 48, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
King James Version
And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
World English Bible
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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Genesis 48:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
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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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Joshua 14:4The descendants of Joseph became two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion of the land was given to the Levites, except for cities in which to live, along with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.