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Genesis Chapter 48

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GENESIS

Genesis 48

1And it happened after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, your father is sick. And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Genesis 46:20, Genesis 50:23, Genesis 41:50, Genesis 41:52, John 11:3
2And one spoke to Jacob, and said, Behold, your son Joseph comes to you. And Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.
Nehemiah 2:18, Deuteronomy 3:28, Psalms 41:3, Proverbs 23:15, 1 Samuel 23:16
3And Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me.
Genesis 35:9, Genesis 35:12, Genesis 35:9, Genesis 35:12, Genesis 17:1
4And He said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you. And I will make of you a multitude of people, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.
Genesis 17:8, Genesis 17:8, Genesis 35:11, Genesis 35:11, Genesis 12:2
5And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who are born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; like Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
Genesis 41:50, Genesis 41:52, Genesis 41:50, Genesis 41:52, Joshua 14:4
6And your issue, which you father after them, shall be yours, and shall be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
Joshua 14:4, Joshua 14:4
7And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still but a little way to come to Ephrath. And I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; it is Bethlehem.
Genesis 35:16, Genesis 35:19, Matthew 2:18, Genesis 35:9, Genesis 35:16
8And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?
9And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this place. And he said, please bring them to me, and I will bless them.
Genesis 27:4, Genesis 27:4, Genesis 33:5, Genesis 33:5, Hebrews 11:21
10And the eyes of Israel were dim for age; he could not see. And he brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
Genesis 27:27, Genesis 27:1, Genesis 27:27, Genesis 27:1, 1 Kings 19:20
11And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought I would see your face, and, lo, God has showed me also your seed.
Ephesians 3:20, Genesis 45:26, Ephesians 3:20, Genesis 45:26, Genesis 37:33
12And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed his face to the earth.
Genesis 42:6, Genesis 42:6, Ephesians 6:1, 2 Kings 4:37, Leviticus 19:3
13And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left, and Manasseh in his left toward Israel's right hand. And he brought them near to him.
14And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left on Manasseh's head, crossing his hands. For Manasseh was the first-born.
Genesis 41:51, Genesis 41:51, Numbers 8:18, Exodus 15:6, Luke 13:13
15And he blessed Joseph and said, May God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who fed me all my life to this day,
Genesis 17:1, Genesis 17:1, Colossians 2:6, Colossians 2:6, Genesis 28:3
16the Angel who 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 like the fishes into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
Psalms 34:22, Psalms 34:22, Genesis 49:22, Genesis 48:5, Genesis 49:22
17And Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, and it was evil in his eyes. And he held up his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
Genesis 48:14, Romans 9:7, Romans 9:8, Genesis 48:14, Romans 9:7
18And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father. For this is the first-born. Put your right hand on his head.
Acts 11:8, Acts 10:14, Genesis 27:15, Genesis 43:33, Genesis 49:3
19And his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great, but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he is, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
Deuteronomy 33:17, Deuteronomy 33:17, Genesis 17:20, Genesis 17:21, Genesis 17:20
20And he blessed them that day, saying, In you shall Israel bless, saying, God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh. And he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
Genesis 24:60, Genesis 24:60, Ruth 4:11, Ruth 4:12, Genesis 28:3
21And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die. But God shall be with you, and bring you again into the land of your fathers.
Genesis 50:24, Genesis 46:4, Genesis 50:24, Genesis 46:4, Genesis 26:3
22And 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.
John 4:5, John 4:5, Joshua 24:32, Joshua 24:32, 1 Chronicles 5:2

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