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The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo

Genesis 48:10

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Genesis 48:10 (WEB)

Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

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  • “You will charge Jacob with sin, whose vision became so dim that he could not see Ephraim and Manasseh, although with the inner eye and the prophetic spirit he could foresee the distant future and the Christ that was to come of his royal line.” — editor's note: Gen. xlviii. 10.

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