{"id":739,"date":"2007-12-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/contentfeeds\/2007\/12\/genesis-4728489.html"},"modified":"2007-12-16T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T01:00:00","slug":"genesis-4728489","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/12\/genesis-4728489.html","title":{"rendered":"Genesis 47:28-48:9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob lived seventeen years in the land of Egypt, so that the span of Jacob&#8217;s life came to one hundred and forty-seven years. And when the time approached for Israel to die, he summoned his son Joseph and said to him, &#8220;Do me this favor, place your hand under my thigh as a pledge of your steadfast loyalty: please do not bury me in Egypt. When I lie down with my fathers, take me up from Egypt and bury me in their burial-place.&#8221; He replied, &#8220;I will do as you have spoken.&#8221; And he said, &#8220;Swear to me.&#8221; And he swore to him. Then Israel bowed at the head of the bed.<br \/>\nSome time afterward, Joseph was told, &#8220;Your father is ill.&#8221; So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. When Jacob was told, &#8220;Your son Joseph has come to see you,&#8221; Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.<br \/>\nAnd Jacob said to Joseph, &#8220;El Shaddai appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and He blessed me, and said to me, &#8216;I will make you fertile and numerous, making of you a community of peoples; and I will assign this land to your offspring to come for an everlasting possession.&#8217; Now, your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, shall be mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine no less than Reuben and Simeon. 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