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15 Then Israel gave Joseph his blessing. He said,

“May God bless these boys.
    He is the God of my grandfather Abraham and my father Isaac.
    They walked faithfully with him.
He is the God who has been my shepherd
    all my life right up to this day.
16 He is the Angel who has saved me from all harm.
    May he bless these boys.
May they be called by my name.
    May they also be called by the names of my grandfather Abraham and my father Isaac.
And may the number of them greatly increase
    on the earth.”

17 Joseph saw his father putting his right hand on Ephraim’s head. And Joseph didn’t like it. So he took hold of his father’s hand to move it over to Manasseh’s head.

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