Genesis 48:3

And Jacob says to Joseph, “God Almighty has appeared to me, in Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blesses me,

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And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

In Context

2And [one] declares [it] to Jacob and says, “Behold, your son Joseph is coming to you”; and Israel strengthens himself, and sits on the bed.

4and says to me, Behold, I am making you fruitful, and have multiplied you, and given you for an assembly of peoples, and given this land to your seed after you, a continuous possession.

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Cross References

Genesis 17:6and I have made you exceedingly fruitful, and made you become nations, and kings go out from you.

Genesis 28:12And he dreams, and behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and its head is touching the heavens; and behold, messengers of God are going up and coming down by it;

Genesis 28:19and he calls the name of that place Bethel, [house of God,] and yet, Luz [is] the name of the city at the first.

Genesis 35:9And God appears to Jacob again, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and blesses him;

Judges 1:23and the house of Joseph causes [men] to spy out Beth-El (and the name of the city [was] formerly Luz),

Revelation 21:11having the glory of God, and her light—like a most precious stone, as a jasper stone clear as crystal,

Matthew Henry on Genesis 48:2-8

Jacob's Last Illness. ( b. c. 1689.) 1 And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a… Read the whole commentary →

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