4So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
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And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Though Joseph was one of the younger sons of Jacob, yet he was his eldest by his most just and best beloved wife Rachel, was himself his best beloved son , and had been the greatest ornament and support of his family, kept it from perishing in a time of famine, and had been the shepherd and stone of Israel , and therefore his posterity were very much favoured by the lot. Their portion lay in the v…
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