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So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
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Verse 5. This is what Jacob gave to his son Joseph, when calling him to him just before he died, he said: (Genesis 48 verse 22) I give thee a portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorrhite, with my sword and bow. Theophylactus.—It was thirty-six miles from Jerusalem, and the same place as Sichem, (Genesis 34) the capital of Samaria, now called Neplosa.
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