Genesis 48:19

American Standard Version (1901)

And 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: howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

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  • Deut 33:17 : 17 The firstling of his herd, majesty is his; And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox: With them he shall push the peoples all of them, [even] the ends of the earth: And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
  • 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.
  • Isa 7:17 : 17 Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah--[ even] the king of Assyria.
  • Ezek 27:10 : 10 Persia and Lud and Put were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
  • Rev 7:6 : 6 Of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand;
  • Rev 7:8 : 8 Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Benjamin [were] sealed twelve thousand.
  • Gen 17:20-21 : 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
  • Gen 25:28 : 28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: and Rebekah loved Jacob.
  • Gen 48:14 : 14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born.
  • Num 1:33-35 : 33 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred. 34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 35 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
  • Num 2:19-21 : 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.
  • Deut 1:10 : 10 Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 48:11-18
    8 verses
    81%

    11And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath let me see thy seed also.

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

    13And 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 unto him.

    14And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born.

    15And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath fed me all my life long unto this day,

    16the angel who hath 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 into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

    17And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

    18And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.

  • Gen 48:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

    20And 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.

    21And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God will be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

  • Gen 37:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10And he told it to his father, and to his brethren; and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

    11And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying in mind.

  • Gen 48:4-6
    3 verses
    75%

    4and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples, and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

    5And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, shall be mine.

    6And thy issue, that thou begettest after them, shall be thine; they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

  • Gen 49:26
    75%

    26The blessings of thy father Have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

  • Gen 48:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?

    9And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me here. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.

  • 1 Chr 5:2
    74%

    2For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph's),

  • Gen 46:3
    72%

    3And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

  • Gen 48:1
    72%

    1And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

  • Gen 35:11
    72%

    11And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

  • Gen 27:29
    72%

    29Let peoples serve thee, And nations bow down to thee: Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: Cursed be every one that curseth thee, And blessed be every one that blesseth thee.

  • Gen 25:23
    72%

    23And Jehovah said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels: And the one people shall be stronger than the other people; And the elder shall serve the younger.

  • Gen 42:38
    71%

    38And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left: if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

  • Gen 46:31
    71%

    31And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and will say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;

  • Gen 44:27
    70%

    27And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:

  • Gen 41:51
    70%

    51And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: For, [said he], God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

  • Gen 49:2
    70%

    2Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; And hearken unto Israel your father.

  • Gen 50:23
    70%

    23And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees.

  • Gen 37:8
    70%

    8And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

  • Gen 17:20
    70%

    20And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

  • Rom 9:12
    70%

    12it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.