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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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Verse 6. Thine. They shall not claim the same prerogative: they shall live among their brethren, Ephraim and Manasses. We read not that Joseph had any other children besides these two. Calmet.—The double portion, or the birth-right, was thus transferred from Ruben to Joseph. D.
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