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Genesis 48:22

20 So that day Jacob blessed them and said: “By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.

And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”
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BSB
And to you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”
KJV
Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
WEB
Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”
ASV
Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
DARBY
And *I* have given to thee one tract [of land] above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
BLB
And I, I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”
ÅB
Og jeg gir deg fremfor dine brødre et stykke land som jeg tar fra amorittenes hånd med mitt sverd og min bue.
OTB
Og jeg gir deg en del mer enn dine brødre, som jeg tok fra amorittene med mitt sverd og min bue."
B1930
Og jeg gir dig fremfor dine brødre et stykke land som jeg tar fra amorittenes hånd med mitt sverd og min bue.

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  • John 4:5

    So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

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  • Joshua 24:32

    And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.

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  • 1 Chronicles 5:2

    And though Judah prevailed over his brothers and a ruler came from him, the birthright belonged to Joseph.

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  • Judges 11:23

    Now since the LORD, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites from before His people Israel, should you now possess it?

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  • Genesis 34:28

    They took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.

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  • Joshua 17:14–18

    Then the sons of Joseph said to Joshua, “Why have you given us only one portion as an inheritance? We have many people, because the LORD has blessed us abundantly.”

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  • Amos 2:9

    Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.

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  • Genesis 15:16

    In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

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