KJV King James Version
And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third [generation]: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.
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Genesis 50:23
And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third [generation]: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.
WEB World English Bible
Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.
ASV American Standard Version
And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph’s knees.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and Joseph looketh on Ephraim’s sons of the third generation; sons also of Machir, son of Manasseh, have been born on the knees of Joseph.
Surrounding context — Genesis 50
20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; [but] God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as [it is] this day, to save much people alive.
21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
23 And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third [generation]: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.
24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
26 So Joseph died, [being] an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיַּ֤רְאH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeיוֹסֵף֙H3130 · yo.sephJosephלְאֶפְרַ֔יִםH669 · eph.ra.yimEphraimבְּנֵ֖יH1121 · benson: childשִׁלֵּשִׁ֑יםH8029 · shil.leshthirdגַּ֗םH1571 · gamalsoבְּנֵ֤יH1121 · benson: childמָכִיר֙H4353 · ma.khirMachirבֶּן־H1121 · benson: childמְנַשֶּׁ֔הH4519 · me.nash.shehManassehיֻלְּד֖וּH3205 · ya.ladto begetעַל־H5921 · aluponבִּרְכֵּ֥יH1290 · be.rekhkneeיוֹסֵֽף׃H3130 · yo.sephJoseph
Cross-references
Numbers 32:39And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which [was] in it.Job 42:16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, [even] four generations.Genesis 30:3And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.Psalm 128:6Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, [and] peace upon Israel.Joshua 17:1There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he [was] the firstborn of Joseph; [to wit], for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.Numbers 32:33And Moses gave unto them, [even] to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, [even] the cities of the country round about.Genesis 48:19And 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.Genesis 49:12His eyes [shall be] red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
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