Genesis 48:4
King James VersionSource notes
“And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee an everlasting possession.”
Context
1And it came to pass after these things, that told Joseph, Behold, thy father sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
2And told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
3And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
4And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee an everlasting possession.
5And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
6And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
7And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.