1It happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is sick." He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

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Genesis 46:20, Genesis 50:23, Genesis 41:50, Genesis 41:52, John 11:3

2Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you," and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.

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Nehemiah 2:18, Deuteronomy 3:28, Psalms 41:3, Proverbs 23:15, 1 Samuel 23:16

3Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

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Genesis 35:9, Genesis 35:12, Genesis 35:9, Genesis 35:12, Genesis 17:1

4and 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 seed after you for an everlasting possession.'

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Genesis 17:8, Genesis 17:8, Genesis 35:11, Genesis 35:11, Genesis 12:2

5Now 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.

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Genesis 41:50, Genesis 41:52, Genesis 41:50, Genesis 41:52, Joshua 14:4

6Your issue, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

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Joshua 14:4, Joshua 14:4

7As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem)."

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Genesis 35:16, Genesis 35:19, Matthew 2:18, Genesis 35:9, Genesis 35:16

8Israel saw Joseph's sons, and said, "Who are these?"

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9Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." He said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them."

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Genesis 27:4, Genesis 27:4, Genesis 33:5, Genesis 33:5, Hebrews 11:21

10Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

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Genesis 27:27, Genesis 27:1, Genesis 27:27, Genesis 27:1, 1 Kings 19:20

11Israel said to Joseph, "I did not think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your seed also."

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Ephesians 3:20, Genesis 45:26, Ephesians 3:20, Genesis 45:26, Genesis 37:33

12Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

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Genesis 42:6, Genesis 42:6, Ephesians 6:1, 2 Kings 4:37, Leviticus 19:3

13Joseph 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.

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14Israel 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.

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Genesis 41:51, Genesis 41:51, Numbers 8:18, Exodus 15:6, Luke 13:13

15He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

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Genesis 17:1, Genesis 17:1, Colossians 2:6, Colossians 2:6, Genesis 28:3

16the angel who has 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. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."

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Psalms 34:22, Psalms 34:22, Genesis 49:22, Genesis 48:5, Genesis 49:22

17When 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.

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Genesis 48:14, Romans 9:7, Romans 9:8, Genesis 48:14, Romans 9:7

18Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."

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Acts 11:8, Acts 10:14, Genesis 27:15, Genesis 43:33, Genesis 49:3

19His 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 seed will become a multitude of nations."

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Deuteronomy 33:17, Deuteronomy 33:17, Genesis 17:20, Genesis 17:21, Genesis 17:20

20He blessed them that day, saying, "In you will Israel bless, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh'" He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

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Genesis 24:60, Genesis 24:60, Ruth 4:11, Ruth 4:12, Genesis 28:3

21Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

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Genesis 50:24, Genesis 46:4, Genesis 50:24, Genesis 46:4, Genesis 26:3

22Moreover 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."

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John 4:5, John 4:5, Joshua 24:32, Joshua 24:32, 1 Chronicles 5:2