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And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

48:19 multitude of nations. The tribe of Ephraim eventually became larger and more important than any of the other tribes except Judah. Its name was even made synonymous with all ten tribes in the northern kingdom when they rebelled against Rehoboam and became a separate nation.


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