Genesis 48:6 - The Scriptures 2009

“Your offspring whom you shall bring forth after them are yours, and let them be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But other sons who may be born after them shall be your own; and they shall be called after the names of these [two] brothers and reckoned as belonging to them [when they come] into their inheritance.

American Standard Version (1901)

And thy issue, that thou begettest after them, shall be thine; they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

Common English Bible

Your family who is born to you after them are yours, but their inheritance will be determined under their brothers’ names.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But the remainder, whom you will conceive after them, will be yours, and they will be called by the name of their brothers among their possessions.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But the rest, whom thou shalt have after them, shall be thine, and shall be called by the name of their brethren in their possessions.

Genesis 48:6 Cross References

Genesis 48:5

“And now, your two sons, Ephrayim and Menashsheh, who were born to you in the land of Mitsrayim before I came to you in Mitsrayim, are mine – as Re’uḇĕn and Shim‛on, they are mine.

Genesis 48:7

And I, when I came from Paddan, Raḥĕl died beside me in the land of Kena‛an on the way, when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath. And I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, that is Bĕyth Leḥem.

Joshua 14:4

For the children of Yosĕph had become two tribes: Menashsheh and Ephrayim. And they gave no part to the Lĕwites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their open land for their livestock and their possessions.