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    "book": "genesis-woh",
    "chapter": 48
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    "n": 48,
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    "title": "Genesis 48 — Ya'aqov's adoption of Yosef's two sons: the El-Shaddai-at-Luz covenant-memory, the Ephraim-and-Menasheh-as-Re'uven-and-Shim'on adoption-formula, the *ha-mal'akh ha-go'el* unified-theophanic-redeemer formula, the deliberate hand-crossing reversing the firstborn-order, the *yesimkha Elohim ke-Ephrayim ve-khi-Menasheh* liturgical-blessing, and the *shekhem achad* parting-portion",
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ASV-baseline rendering defensible."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:2","status":"approve","citations":["1 Kgs 2:2 deathbed parallel","HALOT s.v. chazaq Hithpael","Westermann pp. 184-185"],"reasoning":"va-yitchazzeq Yisra'el (Hithpael chazaq) deathbed self-rallying idiom verified; name-shift Ya'aqov to Yisra'el at action-clause cleanly parsed; MT mittah (bed) vocalization correctly reinforced by the v 2 narrative-action of sitting up. Three-overlay flag is philologically responsible."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:3","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna p. 325","Westermann pp. 184-185","Cassuto Genesis II"],"reasoning":"El Shaddai theophany at Luz correctly cross-referenced to Gen 17:1 / 28:3 / 35:11 / 43:14 patriarchal cluster. Recital correctly identified as conflating Gen 35 (Luz/El Shaddai) with Gen 28 (ladder/YHWH). ASV preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:4","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna p. 325","Westermann pp. 184-185","Hamilton NICOT pp. 631-632","HALOT s.v. qahal"],"reasoning":"New central qhal-ammim entry documents the formula's patriarchal-promise distribution (Gen 28:3 / 35:11 / 48:4) with verified named scholarship. The wider qahal-lexeme reach to Deut 23:2-9 and the LXX ekklesia translation is documentary, not adjudicatory. claim_type=direct correctly assigned. achuzzat olam + peru-urvu extensions verified."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:5","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna p. 326","Westermann pp. 186-187","Hamilton NICOT pp. 631-633","Levenson Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son (1993)","1 Chr 5:1-2","Num 26"],"reasoning":"The adoption-formula central is the chapter's institutional centerpiece. The 1 Chr 5:1-2 explicit citation + Num 26 separate-tribes census + Josh 13-17 territorial-allocation provides documentary HB-internal reception. Christian-supersessionist 'adoption-of-the-Gentiles' typology explicitly disavowed in rationale. ASV-baseline preserved. claim_type=direct defensible."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:6","status":"approve","citations":["Hamilton NICOT pp. 631-633","Sarna p. 326"],"reasoning":"Corollary inheritance-clause correctly identified as constraining adoption scope to Ephraim+Menasheh alone. Al shem acheihem yiqqar'u be-nachalatam parsed correctly. Adoption-formula central rightly applies to both vv 5-6."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:7","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna p. 326","Fokkelman Narrative Art in Genesis (1975)","Westermann pp. 187-188","HALOT s.v. kivrah"],"reasoning":"Rachel-grief recall mid-blessing handled as overlay literary-observation (claim_type=inferred per the editor's report; appropriately so given three named-scholarship reading-camps). kivrat eretz rare-idiom (3 HB occurrences) and the Efrat/Beit-Lechem Davidic cross-corpus toponym responsibly handled as overlay-housed without Christological Matt 2 pre-resolution."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:8","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna p. 327","Alter Five Books of Moses (2004) pp. 285-286"],"reasoning":"mi-eleh narrative-pivot from legal-adoption to blessing-ritual. The Gen 27:18 mi-atah beni mirror is noted in commentary, properly anchored to the v 10 blindness-pair governance."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:9","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna p. 327","Gen 27:7, 25-27 patriarchal-blessing-protocol"],"reasoning":"ba-zeh deictic-locative for Mitsrayim correctly identified as commentary-only observation. qachem-na cohortative + avarakhem patriarchal-blessing-protocol echo to Gen 27 verified."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:10","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna JPS Genesis (1989) p. 327","Alter Five Books of Moses pp. 285-286","Fokkelman Narrative Art in Genesis (1975) pp. 238-241","Westermann pp. 188-189","HALOT s.vv. kahah, kaved"],"reasoning":"PROJECT'S SIXTH BIDIRECTIONAL CENTRAL-OVERLAY SIBLING PAIR. Independently verified: central kahah-eynayim entry now references overlay kavedu-einav by id with rationale-extension documenting the kaved/kahah lexeme-shift; overlay rationale references the central. Both directions resolve. The Yitzchaq-deceived / Ya'aqov-knowingly inversion-of-deception is documented with named scholarship."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:11","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. palal Piel","Hamilton NICOT pp. 635-636","Westermann pp. 189-190"],"reasoning":"pilel Piel in rare expect/hope sense correctly distinguished from prayer/intercession standard sense (HALOT distinguishes palal I from palal II). The Ps 106:30 Pinchas parallel is real lexical-evidence. ASV 'I had not thought' preserved. Overlay-housing appropriate; claim_type=direct defensible."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:12","status":"approve","citations":["Speiser AB Genesis (1964) p. 358","Sarna p. 328","Brichto The Names of God p. 199","Gen 50:23 al-birkei Yosef"],"reasoning":"hishtachavah extension to v 12 captures the cycle's inverted-direction obeisance moment (Yosef bows before Ya'aqov). bein-birkav overlay (claim_type=inferred per editor) correctly identifies the adoption-on-the-knees ritual position with named ANE comparative-evidence (Speiser, Brichto). Gen 50:23 sibling-pair flagged for future Gen 50 processing."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:13","status":"approve","citations":["Hamilton NICOT pp. 636-637","Sarna p. 328"],"reasoning":"Yosef's right-handed-honor positioning protocol verified. firstborn-priority-reversal-irony central already applies; the chapter's deliberate setup of Yosef's assumption-of-standard-protocol is correctly identified as the setup for v 14 hand-crossing."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:14","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. sakhal","BDB pp. 968-969","TDOT XIV:112-128","Sarna p. 328","Speiser AB Genesis (1964) p. 358","Westermann pp. 189-190"],"reasoning":"sikkel et-yadav philological-crux central documents three named-scholarship reading-camps (cognitive: Sarna/von Rad/Alter; spatial: Speiser/Westermann/Hamilton/Wenham; both-at-once: Cassuto/Fokkelman) WITHOUT adjudicating. ASV 'guiding wittingly' (cognitive) preserved on surface. claim_type=direct defensible since the s-k-l root semantic-range is documented across HALOT/BDB/TDOT/NIDOTTE. NO WoH spin on hand-crossing as a quasi-technical-instructional gesture."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:15","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna p. 328","Westermann pp. 189-190","Hamilton NICOT p. 637","Block Ezekiel 25-48 NICOT (1998) pp. 269-307","Kraus Psalms 1-59 Hermeneia"],"reasoning":"hithallekh-lefanai central rightly distinguishes its cross-corpus reach from the existing tamim-walk-before-god-covenant central (sibling-coverage convention preserved). elohim-ha-ro-eh central documents the Ps 23/80/Isa 40/Ezek 34 saturation as named scholarship; John 10 NT reception named-but-not-adjudicated. ad-ha-yom-ha-zeh autobiographical-individual register-extension defensible."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:16","status":"approve","citations":["Rofe Mal'akhei Elohim (1979)","von Rad Genesis OTL pp. 412-413","Brueggemann Genesis (Interpretation) pp. 369-370","Sarna p. 329","Hamilton NICOT pp. 638-639","Childs The Book of Exodus OTL","Westermann pp. 190-191","M. S. Smith The Origins of Biblical Monotheism (2001)","S. A. Meier The Messenger in the Ancient Semitic World HSM 45 (1988)","HALOT s.vv. mal'akh, ga'al","TDOT II:350-355","TDOT VIII:308-325"],"reasoning":"CHAPTER'S THEOLOGICAL SIGNATURE. Independently verified: the central ha-mal-akh entry rationale maintains STRICT lens-discipline throughout. Three-clause vv 15-16 grammatical unification (ha-Elohim + ha-Elohim + ha-mal'akh governed by single optative yvarekh) correctly parsed. Cycle-thread Gen 28+31+32+35 verified as named scholarship (Rofe; von Rad on proto-monotheistic compromise; Brueggemann on personalist-relational; Sarna; Hamilton; Childs on go'el; Westermann; M. S. Smith; Meier on ANE comparative; Schmid; Hess). EXPLICIT DUAL DISAVOWAL VERIFIED: NO Christian Angel-of-the-Lord / Christophany / Trinitarian-typology pre-resolution; NO WoH messenger-from-designer-civilization synthesis. Translation surface ASV-baseline 'the messenger who hath redeemed me from all evil' preserved. claim_type=direct defensible because lexemes are morphologically explicit and theophanic-thread is grammatically traceable."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:17","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. ra'a (be-einav), tamakh","BDB pp. 1069-1070","Hamilton NICOT p. 638"],"reasoning":"va-yera be-einav displeasure-idiom overlay verified with cross-corpus distribution (Gen 21:11; 38:10; 2 Sam 11:25+27; 1 Kgs 11:6). va-yitmokh uphold/support overlay correctly captures Yosef's physical-grasping gesture; ASV 'held up' preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:18","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna p. 329","Hamilton NICOT p. 638"],"reasoning":"lo-khen avi ki-zeh ha-bekhor protest grammatically explicit. bekhorah central extension to v 18 captures the institutional-stake of Yosef's objection. Setup-for-refusal at v 19 correctly identified."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:19","status":"approve","citations":["Levenson Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son (1993)","Greenspahn When Brothers Dwell Together (1994)","von Rad Genesis OTL on patriarchal election-theology","Cranfield Romans ICC (1979)","Dunn Romans 9-16 WBC (1988)","Stendahl Paul Among Jews and Gentiles (1976)","Boyarin A Radical Jew (1994)","Nanos The Mystery of Romans (1996)"],"reasoning":"CHAPTER'S EXPLICIT FIRSTBORN-REVERSAL ARTICULATION. Independently verified: firstborn-priority-reversal-irony rationale-extension correctly marks v 19 as explicit-articulation locus; the Gen 25:23 to 27 to 29 to 48 to David/Shelomoh arc is the corpus's structural-axiom per Levenson and Greenspahn named scholarship. melo-ha-goyim overlay rationale maintains STRICT lens-discipline on Rom 11:25 reception: documented as named-scholarship-apparatus only (Cranfield, Dunn, Moo, Stendahl, Boyarin, Nanos) with NO Christian-theological supersession adjudication; NO WoH supersession-spin. me-en refusal-verb overlay correctly captures the Yosef-cycle echo (Gen 37:35 / 39:8 / 48:19). ASV 'a multitude of nations' preserved."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:20","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna p. 330","Heinemann Prayer in the Talmud (1977)","Reif Judaism and Hebrew Prayer (1993)","Idelsohn Jewish Liturgy and Its Development (1932)","Hoffman Beyond the Text (1987)","Encyclopedia Judaica s.v. Birkat ha-Banim"],"reasoning":"BIRKAT HA-BANIM SOURCE. Independently verified: yesimkha Elohim central documents the liturgical-reception through named rabbinic-and-medieval-liturgical scholarship (Heinemann, Reif, Idelsohn, Hoffman, Lamm; Machzor Vitry 11th-c. Ashkenazi liturgical compilation; Sefer Tashbetz Katan; parallel daughter-formula). The bekha yvarekh introduction-formula sibling-overlay correctly captures the Gen 12:3 / Ruth 4:11-12 cross-corpus pattern. The Ephraim-before-Menasheh order encoding the firstborn-reversal in the liturgical-formula itself is a defensible literary-architectural observation. NO theological-supersession adjudication; NO WoH liturgical-spin."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:21","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna p. 330","Hamilton NICOT pp. 640-641","cross-corpus Gen 46:4 + 28:15 promise-formula"],"reasoning":"anokhi-immekha central extension to v 21 correctly identifies the Exodus-return-promise echo of Gen 46:4 + 28:15. hinneh-anokhi-met deathbed-self-announcement formula correctly identifies the Gen 48:21 to 50:5 to 50:24 cycle-arc with future-Gen-50 sibling-extensions flagged."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-48:22","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. shekhem I + Shekhem II","Skinner Genesis ICC (1910) pp. 506-507","Speiser AB Genesis (1964) pp. 358-359","Cassuto Genesis II","Hamilton NICOT pp. 641-642","Wenham WBC pp. 468-469","Westermann pp. 192-193","von Rad OTL pp. 414-415","Friedman Who Wrote the Bible? (1987)","Carr Reading the Fractures of Genesis (1996)","Sternberg The Poetics of Biblical Narrative (1985) pp. 445-475"],"reasoning":"CHAPTER'S PARTING CRUX. Independently verified: shekhem-achad central documents three semantic-registers (shoulder/portion/Shekhem-city) and three named-scholarship reading-camps on the historical-redactional crux (source-critical fragmentary: Skinner/Speiser/Friedman/Carr; harmonizing: Cassuto/Hamilton/Wenham/Ramban; irreducibly-difficult: Westermann/von Rad) WITHOUT adjudicating. ASV 'one portion above thy brethren' (lexical-baseline) preserved on surface without precluding the Shekhem-pun. NO WoH ANE-conquest synthesis on the be-charbi u-ve-qashti clause; NO theological adjudication. The Josh 24:32 Yosef-bones-at-Shekhem editorial-anticipation is real scholarly observation. claim_type=direct defensible because polysemy + historical-redactional crux are documentary observations across the named-scholarship literature."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"adoption-formula-li-yihyu-ephraim-menasheh-as-reuven-shimon","status":"approve","citations":["1 Chr 5:1-2","Num 26","Hamilton NICOT pp. 631-633","Levenson (1993)","Daube Studies in Biblical Law (1947)"],"reasoning":"New central. claim_type=direct verified: li-yihyu construction + ki-Re'uven-ve-Shim'on comparison grammatically explicit; institutional effects verifiable across 1 Chr 5:1-2 + Num 26 + Josh 13-17 + Deut 33:13-17; Christian-supersessionist typology explicitly disavowed."},{"glossary_id":"sikkel-et-yadav-hand-crossing-piel-philological-crux","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. sakhal","TDOT XIV:112-128","Sarna p. 328","Speiser p. 358","Westermann p. 189"],"reasoning":"New central. claim_type=direct verified: three named-scholarship reading-camps documented WITHOUT adjudicating; ASV 'guiding wittingly' preserved; s-k-l root semantic-range documented in HALOT/BDB/TDOT/NIDOTTE."},{"glossary_id":"ha-mal-akh-ha-go-el-mi-kol-ra-unified-theophanic-redeemer-formula","status":"approve","citations":["Rofe Mal'akhei Elohim (1979)","von Rad OTL pp. 412-413","Brueggemann pp. 369-370","Sarna p. 329","M. S. Smith Origins of Biblical Monotheism (2001)","Meier HSM 45 (1988)","TDOT VIII:308-325"],"reasoning":"New central; THE CHAPTER'S THEOLOGICAL SIGNATURE. claim_type=direct defensible: lexemes mal'akh + ga'al morphologically explicit; cycle theophanic-thread (Gen 28/31/32/35) grammatically traceable; named scholarship documents mal'akh-as-Elohim identification as recognized theological-architectural data-cluster. EXPLICIT DUAL DISAVOWAL VERIFIED in rationale: NO Christian Christophany / Trinitarian-typology pre-resolution; NO WoH designer-civilization-messenger synthesis. Reception-history (Christensen) documented-not-adjudicated."},{"glossary_id":"qhal-ammim-congregation-of-peoples-patriarchal-promise-formula","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. qahal","TDOT XII:546-561","Sarna p. 325","Westermann pp. 184-185"],"reasoning":"New central. claim_type=direct verified: construction morphologically explicit; cross-corpus Gen 28:3 / 35:11 / 48:4 patriarchal-cluster grammatically traceable; wider qahal corpus-distribution documented; LXX ekklesia reception named without theological adjudication."},{"glossary_id":"hithallekh-lefanai-patriarchal-walking-before-elohim-covenantal-formula","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. halakh Hithpael","TDOT III:388-403","Sarna p. 328","von Rad OTL pp. 79-80"],"reasoning":"New central. claim_type=direct verified: Hithpael + lefanai construction explicit; cross-corpus reach (Gen 5/6/17/24/48; 1 Sam 2; 1 Kgs 2-9; 2 Kgs 20; Ps 56/116; Mic 6; Mal 2) verifiable; sibling-coverage with existing central tamim-walk-before-god-covenant properly distinguished."},{"glossary_id":"elohim-ha-ro-eh-divine-shepherd-metaphor","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ra'ah I","TDOT XIII:544-553","Block Ezekiel 25-48 NICOT (1998)","Kraus Psalms 1-59 Hermeneia","C. Westermann Isaiah 40-66 OTL (1969)"],"reasoning":"New central. claim_type=direct verified: participle ro'eh morphologically explicit; divine-attribution at v 15 grammatically explicit; cross-corpus saturation (Ps 23/80/Isa 40/Ezek 34) verifiable; John 10 NT reception named-not-adjudicated."},{"glossary_id":"yesimkha-elohim-ke-ephrayim-liturgical-blessing-formula","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna p. 330","Heinemann Prayer in the Talmud (1977)","Reif Judaism and Hebrew Prayer (1993)","Idelsohn (1932)","Machzor Vitry"],"reasoning":"New central. claim_type=direct verified: formula morphologically explicit; chapter-internal liturgical-anticipation (bekha yvarekh Yisra'el lemor) grammatically explicit; post-biblical Birkat ha-Banim liturgical-reception documentary across rabbinic-medieval-modern sources; NO theological-supersession adjudication."},{"glossary_id":"shekhem-achad-polysemy-historical-redactional-crux","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.vv. shekhem I + Shekhem II","Skinner Genesis ICC (1910) pp. 506-507","Cassuto Genesis II","Hamilton NICOT pp. 641-642","Westermann pp. 192-193","von Rad OTL pp. 414-415","Sternberg (1985)"],"reasoning":"New central. claim_type=direct verified: shekhem polysemy documented in HALOT/BDB/TDOT; historical-redactional crux grammatically and narratively explicit (v 22 clause contradicts Gen 34); three named-scholarship reading-camps documentary; NO WoH ANE-conquest synthesis; NO theological adjudication."},{"glossary_id":"kavedu-einav-mi-zoqen-gen27-gen48-blindness-echo","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna p. 327","Alter pp. 285-286","Fokkelman Narrative Art in Genesis (1975) pp. 238-241","HALOT s.vv. kahah, kaved"],"reasoning":"PROJECT'S SIXTH BIDIRECTIONAL CENTRAL-OVERLAY SIBLING PAIR. Both directions verified intact in this pass: central kahah-eynayim rationale-extension and overlay rationale cross-reference each other by id. claim_type=direct verified: kaved/kahah lexeme-shift morphologically explicit; Gen 27 ↔ Gen 48 narrative-mirror structurally explicit; inversion-of-deception grammatically transparent (Yitzchaq deceived vs Ya'aqov yada'ti veni yada'ti)."},{"glossary_id":"melo-ha-goyim-fullness-of-nations-rom-11-reception-gen48","status":"approve","citations":["Cranfield Romans ICC (1979)","Dunn Romans 9-16 WBC (1988)","Moo NICNT (1996)","Stendahl Paul Among Jews and Gentiles (1976)","Boyarin (1994)","Nanos (1996)"],"reasoning":"Overlay; PRINCIPAL LENS-RISK ENTRY. STRICT lens-discipline verified: Rom 11:25 reception documented as named-scholarship-apparatus only; reading-history (Reformed, Catholic, post-Holocaust Jewish-Christian-dialogue, Jewish-readings-of-Paul) documentary not adjudicatory; ASV 'a multitude of nations' preserved on surface. NO Christian-theological supersession adjudication; NO WoH supersession-spin. claim_type=direct defensible."},{"glossary_id":"yaaqov-yisrael-name-shift-cycle-wide-pattern-gen48","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna p. 327","Alter on the name-alternation pattern across the Ya'aqov cycle","Fokkelman (1975)"],"reasoning":"Overlay; claim_type=inferred per the editor (the structural-logic Yisra'el-in-formal-act-register vs Ya'aqov-in-narrator's-frame is a defensible literary-architectural interpretation rather than morphologically-encoded distinction). Sibling-extension chain with the existing Gen 46 overlay verified intact bidirectionally. Cycle-wide central-candidate promotion-flag responsibly carried forward to Gen 49/50 processing."},{"glossary_id":"rachel-grief-recall-mid-blessing-gen48","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna p. 326","Fokkelman (1975)","Westermann pp. 187-188","Brueggemann"],"reasoning":"Overlay; claim_type=inferred appropriately assigned (three named-scholarship reading-camps documented without adjudicating). Motivational/source-critical/literary-thematic divide responsibly preserved."},{"glossary_id":"bein-birkav-adoption-on-the-knees-ritual-gen48","status":"approve","citations":["Speiser AB Genesis (1964) p. 358","Brichto The Names of God p. 199","Sarna p. 328"],"reasoning":"Overlay; claim_type=inferred appropriately assigned. The adoption-on-the-knees ritual position is documented across named ANE comparative scholarship (Speiser, Brichto) and the Gen 50:23 sibling-pair is appropriately flagged for future Gen 50 processing."},{"glossary_id":"kivrat-eretz-rare-idiom-gen48","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. kivrah","2 Kgs 5:19"],"reasoning":"Overlay; claim_type=direct verified. Three HB occurrences (Gen 35:16, 48:7, 2 Kgs 5:19) documentary."},{"glossary_id":"efrat-beit-lechem-toponym-davidic-cross-corpus-gen48","status":"approve","citations":["Mic 5:1","1 Sam 17:12","Ruth 1:2 + 4:11","Jer 31:15"],"reasoning":"Overlay; claim_type=direct verified. Cross-corpus reception (Mic 5:1, 1 Sam 17:12, Ruth 1:2 + 4:11, Jer 31:15) documentary; Matt 2 Christological reception explicitly NOT pre-resolved."},{"glossary_id":"pilel-expect-hope-rare-sense-gen48","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. palal Piel","Ps 106:30"],"reasoning":"Overlay; claim_type=direct verified. HALOT distinguishes palal I (prayer/intercession) from palal II (expect/hope). Ps 106:30 Pinchas-va-yefallel parallel is real lexical evidence."},{"glossary_id":"yidgu-la-rov-multiply-like-fish-hapax-sense-gen48","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. dagah","BDB"],"reasoning":"Overlay; claim_type=direct verified. Denominative dagah from dag in unique multiply-like-fish nuance is morphologically and lexically attested."},{"glossary_id":"yiqqare-bahem-shemi-patriarchal-name-bequest-formula-gen48","status":"approve","citations":["Num 6:27 Aaronic priestly-blessing","Jer 14:9","Deut 28:10"],"reasoning":"Overlay; claim_type=direct verified. Cross-corpus distribution (Num 6:27, Jer 14:9, Isa 4:1, Deut 28:10) documentary; Amos 9:12 + Acts 15:17 NT reception named-not-adjudicated."},{"glossary_id":"va-yera-be-einav-displeasure-idiom-gen48","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ra'a (be-einav idiom)"],"reasoning":"Overlay; claim_type=direct verified. Cross-corpus distribution (Gen 21:11; 38:10; 2 Sam 11:25+27; 1 Kgs 11:6) documentary."},{"glossary_id":"va-yitmokh-uphold-support-yosef-gesture-gen48","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. tamakh","Ps 17:5","Ps 41:13","Prov 4:4"],"reasoning":"Overlay; claim_type=direct verified. tamakh physical-grasping/upholding sense morphologically explicit; Ps 17:5 + 41:13 + Prov 4:4 cross-corpus distribution documentary."},{"glossary_id":"me-en-refusal-verb-yosef-cycle-echo-gen48","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. ma'en Piel","Gen 37:35","Gen 39:8","Jer 31:15"],"reasoning":"Overlay; claim_type=direct verified. Three Yosef-cycle va-yma'en deployments (Gen 37:35, 39:8, 48:19) is a real chapter-internal lexical-keyword thread; Jer 31:15 Rachel reception cross-referenced."},{"glossary_id":"bekha-yvarekh-yisrael-by-thee-shall-bless-formula-gen48","status":"approve","citations":["Gen 12:3","Ruth 4:11-12","Sarna p. 330"],"reasoning":"Overlay; claim_type=direct verified. Cross-corpus pattern (Gen 12:3, Ruth 4:11-12) documentary; sibling-link to central yesimkha-elohim entry properly wired."},{"glossary_id":"hinneh-anokhi-met-deathbed-self-announcement-formula-gen48","status":"approve","citations":["Gen 50:5","Gen 50:24","cross-link to central shakhav-im-avotav-death-formula"],"reasoning":"Overlay; claim_type=direct verified. Yosef-cycle three-verse arc (Gen 48:21 / 50:5 / 50:24) grammatically explicit; Gen 50 sibling-extensions appropriately flagged."},{"glossary_id":"va-yitchazzeq-yisrael-deathbed-self-rallying-strength-gen48","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. chazaq Hithpael","1 Kgs 2:2"],"reasoning":"Overlay; claim_type=direct verified. Hithpael chazaq morphologically explicit; 1 Kgs 2:2 David-deathbed parallel real; sibling-link to mt-lxx-mittah-mateh overlay (v 2 narrative-action of sitting up reinforces MT bed-reading) properly wired bidirectionally."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}},
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:1",
        "text": "And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Yosef, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Menasheh and Ephraim."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:2",
        "text": "And one told Ya'aqov, and said, Behold, thy son Yosef cometh unto thee: and Yisra'el strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:3",
        "text": "And Ya'aqov said unto Yosef, El Shaddai appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Kena'an, and blessed me,"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:4",
        "text": "and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples, and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:5",
        "text": "And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the land of Mitsrayim before I came unto thee into Mitsrayim, are mine; Ephraim and Menasheh, even as Re'uven and Shim'on, shall be mine."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:6",
        "text": "And thy issue, that thou begettest after them, shall be thine; they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:7",
        "text": "And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Kena'an in the way, when there was still some distance to come unto Efrat: and I buried her there in the way to Efrat (the same is Beit-Lechem)."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:8",
        "text": "And Yisra'el beheld Yosef's sons, and said, Who are these?"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:9",
        "text": "And Yosef said unto his father, They are my sons, whom the Elohim hath given me here. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:10",
        "text": "Now the eyes of Yisra'el were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:11",
        "text": "And Yisra'el said unto Yosef, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, the Elohim hath let me see thy seed also."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:12",
        "text": "And Yosef brought them out from between his knees; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:13",
        "text": "And Yosef took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Yisra'el's left hand, and Menasheh in his left hand toward Yisra'el's right hand, and brought them near unto him."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:14",
        "text": "And Yisra'el stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Menasheh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Menasheh was the first-born."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:15",
        "text": "And he blessed Yosef, and said, The Elohim before whom my fathers Avraham and Yitzchaq did walk, the Elohim who hath fed me all my life long unto this day,"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:16",
        "text": "the messenger who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Avraham and Yitzchaq; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:17",
        "text": "And when Yosef saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Menasheh's head."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:18",
        "text": "And Yosef said unto his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:19",
        "text": "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: howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:20",
        "text": "And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Yisra'el bless, saying, the Elohim make thee as Ephraim and as Menasheh: and he set Ephraim before Menasheh."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:21",
        "text": "And Yisra'el said unto Yosef, Behold, I die: but the Elohim will be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-48:22",
        "text": "Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Emori with my sword and with my bow."
      }
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