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Genesis 48:22

Good News Translation (US Version)

It is to you and not to your brothers that I am giving Shechem, that fertile region which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”

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In Samaria he came to a town named Sychar, which was not far from the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

The body of Joseph, which the people of Israel had brought from Egypt, was buried at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of silver. This land was inherited by Joseph's descendants.

It was the tribe of Judah, however, that became the strongest and provided a ruler for all the tribes.)

“And yet, my people, it was for your sake that I totally destroyed the Amorites, who were as tall as cedar trees and as strong as oaks.

So it was the Lord, the God of Israel, who drove out the Amorites for his people, the Israelites.

He is to give a double share of his possessions to his first son, even though he is not the son of his favorite wife. A man must acknowledge his first son and give him the share he is legally entitled to.

They took the flocks, the cattle, the donkeys, and everything else in the city and in the fields.

He bought that part of the field from the descendants of Hamor father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver.

It will be four generations before your descendants come back here, because I will not drive out the Amorites until they become so wicked that they must be punished.”

The Sovereign Lord said, “These are the boundaries of the land that is to be divided among the twelve tribes, with the tribe of Joseph receiving two sections.

Canaan was also the ancestor of the Jebusites, the Amorites, Girgashites,




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