Verse 20

And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 24:60 : 60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Our sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those that hate them.
  • Ruth 4:11-12 : 11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Jehovah make the woman that is come into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Beth-lehem: 12 and let thy house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which Jehovah shall give thee of this young woman.
  • Gen 28:3 : 3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples;
  • Num 2:18-21 : 18 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. 19 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred. 20 And next unto him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 21 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
  • Num 7:48 : 48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim:
  • Num 7:54 : 54 On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:
  • Num 10:22-23 : 22 And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud. 23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
  • Num 13:8 : 8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
  • Num 13:11 : 11 Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
  • Num 13:16 : 16 These are the names of the men that Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.