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Death · The Patriarchs1689 BC

Jacob blesses his sons and dies

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Genesis 48:1–22After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.Genesis 49:1–33Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.
Opening words from the World English Bible (public domain); the passage list is in-house

Who and where

IsraelJosephJudahEphraimManassehEgypt ›
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How we know the date

Ussher's Annals (1650) gives 1689 BC (its year of the world 2315 c).

Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation

The sources, word for word

“2315. c. Jacobus moriturus Manassem et Ephraimum, Josephi filios, adoptat: eisque benedicens, minorem majori divino instinctu przeponit®.”

Ussher, Annales Veteris Testamenti (1650), Latin text in The Whole Works of James Ussher, vols. VIII–XI (Dublin, 1864) · vol. VIII, AM 2315 c · gives 1689 BC

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