As Jacob in the blessing was acting under the spirit of prophecy, he was guided more by what should take place in those tribes of Israel in the after ages of the Church, than by birth-right. See Numbers 1:32. And some have thought that the sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, were types of the Jewish and Gentile Church. Hence the last is more numerous than the first. Galatians 4:27.

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