After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. Gen 41:50-52Gen 46:20Gen 50:23Psa 128:6Jhn 11:3Job 42:16 Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. 1Sa 23:16Deu 3:28Eph 6:10Pro 23:15Psa 41:3Neh 2:18 Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, Gen 35:9-12Exo 6:3Gen 17:1Gen 28:3Gen 28:12-19Gen 35:6-7Hos 12:4Jdg 1:23 and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’ Gen 17:8Gen 35:11Amo 9:14-15Deu 32:8Exo 1:7Gen 12:2Gen 13:15-16Gen 17:13 Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine. Gen 41:50-52Gen 46:20Jos 14:41Ch 5:1-2Jos 13:72Co 6:18Rev 7:6-7Eph 1:5 Your offspring, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance. Jos 14:4 As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).” Gen 35:16-19Gen 35:9Mat 2:181Sa 1:11Sa 10:21Sa 17:12Gen 25:20Mic 5:2
Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, “Who are these?”
Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” Gen 27:4Gen 33:5Heb 11:211Ch 25:51Ch 26:4-51Sa 1:201Sa 1:271Sa 2:20-21
He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.” 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. Gen 27:1Gen 27:271Ki 19:201Sa 3:21Sa 4:15Gen 31:55Gen 45:15Isa 59:1 Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.” Eph 3:20Gen 45:26Gen 37:33Gen 37:35Gen 42:36 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. Gen 42:61Ki 2:192Ki 4:37Eph 6:1Exo 20:12Exo 34:8Gen 18:2Gen 19:1 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him. Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn. Gen 41:511Ti 4:141Ti 5:22Act 13:3Act 6:6Act 8:17-19Deu 34:9Exo 15:6 He blessed Joseph, and said, Gen 17:1Col 2:6Heb 11:211Co 10:311Ki 3:61Ti 6:6-102Co 1:12Deu 33:1
“The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, Psa 34:22Gen 28:13-15Gen 48:5Gen 49:222Ti 4:18Act 15:17Jos 17:17Num 26:28-37
and let my name be named on them,
and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac.
Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. Gen 48:14Rom 9:7-81Ch 21:71Ki 16:251Sa 16:7Gen 28:8Gen 38:10Num 11:1 Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.” Act 10:14Act 11:8Exo 10:11Gen 19:18Gen 27:15Gen 29:26Gen 43:33Gen 49:3
His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.” Deu 33:17Num 1:33-35Gen 17:20-21Gen 25:28Gen 48:14Deu 1:10Ezk 27:10Isa 7:17 He blessed them that day, saying, “Israel will bless in your name, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh. Rut 4:11-12Gen 24:60Gen 28:3Num 10:22-23Num 13:11Num 13:16Num 2:18-21Num 7:48 Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers. Gen 46:4Gen 50:24Gen 26:3Gen 28:15Heb 7:23-25Heb 7:31Ki 2:2-42Pe 1:14 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.” Jhn 4:5Jos 24:321Ch 5:2Amo 2:9Deu 21:17Gen 15:16Gen 33:19Gen 34:28