Amplified Bible, Gen 48:3-5, "3 And Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty
appeared to me at Luz [Bethel] in the land of Canaan and blessed me

4 And said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you,
and I will make you a multitude of people and will give this land to
your descendants after you as an everlasting possession. [Gen.
28:13-22; 35:6-15.]

5 And now your two sons, [Ephraim and Manasseh], who were born to you
in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine. [I am
adopting them, and now] as Reuben and Simeon, [they] shall be mine.

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Verse 4: Amplified, "...multitude of people"

V.4, NASB, "...company of peoples..."

v.4, KJV/AV, "...a multitude of people..."

v.4, Young's Literal, "...an assembly of peoples..."

v.4, Septuagint, "make thee a multitude of nations..."

v.4, Ferrar Fenton Bible, The Holy Bible in Modern English, "...an
assembly of nations..."

Actually, the Ferrar Fenton Bible says, v.3, "...and Jacob said to
Joseph, 'The ALMIGHTY GOD appeared to me on my departure from the land
of Canan, and blessed me (v.4) and said to me; 'I will make you
flourish, and increase your family, and make you an assembly of nations;
and I will give this land to your race after you as a possession for
ever!'...

Now's a good time to mention it! July 4, 1776, AMERICA became a nation
in a day, just as Israel became a nation in a day back in 1948.

America has an eastern sea and a western sea as described in Zechariah 14.

America has UNWALLED villages - at least in most places.

Al Patrick wrote:

Now's a good time to mention it! July 4, 1776, AMERICA became a
nation in a day, just as Israel became a nation in a day back in
1948.
America has an eastern sea and a western sea as described in
Zechariah 14.
America has UNWALLED villages - at least in most places.

You could say the same about Australia, Antarctica, etc. What's the point?

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Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html