“Your offspring, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 48 contains 22 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.