KJV King James Version
Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:
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Genesis 49:22
Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Joseph is a fruitful vine—a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
WEB World English Bible
“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.
ASV American Standard Version
Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a fountain; His branches run over the wall.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Joseph is a fruitful son; A fruitful son by a fountain, Daughters step over the wall;
Surrounding context — Genesis 49
19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
20 Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
21 Naphtali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
22 Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:
23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at him], and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty [God] of Jacob; (from thence [is] the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
25 [Even] by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
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Genesis 41:52And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.Psalm 128:3Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.Psalm 1:1-3Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.Joshua 17:14-17And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me [but] one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I [am] a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?Joshua 16:1-10And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,Genesis 46:27And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, [were] two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, [were] threescore and ten.Genesis 30:22-24And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.Deuteronomy 33:13-17And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD [be] his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,Numbers 32:1-42Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place [was] a place for cattle;Psalm 128:1A Song of degrees. Blessed [is] every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.Genesis 48:1And it came to pass after these things, that [one] told Joseph, Behold, thy father [is] sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.Genesis 48:16The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.Ezekiel 19:11And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.Genesis 48:5And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, [are] mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.Genesis 48:19-20And 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.
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