KJV King James Version
And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
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Genesis 48:20
And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So that day Jacob blessed them and said: “By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
WEB World English Bible
He blessed them that day, saying, “In you will Israel bless, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.
ASV American Standard Version
And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and he blesseth them in that day, saying, ‘By thee doth Israel bless, saying, God set thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh;’ and he setteth Ephraim before Manasseh.
Surrounding context — Genesis 48
17 And when Joseph 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 Manasseh’s head.
18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this [is] the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
19 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: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
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וַיְבָ֨רֲכֵ֜םH1288 · ba.rakhto blessבַּיּ֣וֹםH3117 · yomdayהַהוּא֮H1931 · huhe/she/itלֵאמוֹר֒H559 · a.marto sayבְּךָ֗H9031 · kayouיְבָרֵ֤ךְH1288 · ba.rakhto blessיִשְׂרָאֵל֙H3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelלֵאמֹ֔רH559 · a.marto sayיְשִֽׂמְךָ֣H7760 · sumto set: makeאֱלֹהִ֔יםH430 · e.lo.himGodכְּאֶפְרַ֖יִםH669 · eph.ra.yimEphraimוְכִמְנַשֶּׁ֑הH4519 · me.nash.shehManassehוַיָּ֥שֶׂםH7760 · sumto set: makeאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]אֶפְרַ֖יִםH669 · eph.ra.yimEphraimלִפְנֵ֥יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeמְנַשֶּֽׁה׃H4519 · me.nash.shehManasseh
Cross-references
Ruth 4:11-12And all the people that [were] in the gate, and the elders, said, [We are] witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:Genesis 24:60And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou [art] our sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.Genesis 28:3And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;Numbers 13:11Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.Numbers 10:22-23And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host [was] Elishama the son of Ammihud.Numbers 2:18-21On the west side [shall be] the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim [shall be] Elishama the son of Ammihud.Numbers 7:54On the eighth day [offered] Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:Numbers 7:48On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, [offered]:Numbers 13:16These [are] the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.Numbers 13:8Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
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