“And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.”
Joseph said to his father: they are the sons God has given me here. Then Israel said: bring them to me so I may bless them. The identification — the sons God has given me here, in Egypt — is Joseph's covenant theology in miniature: God gave these sons in the land of suffering. The application: the children given in the land of your suffering are the children most specifically marked as covenant gifts.
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