Genesis 48:20

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And he blessed them that day, & saide: In thee let Israel blesse & saye, God make thee as Ephraim, & as Manasses. And he set Ephraim before Manasses.

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  • Gen 24:60 : 60 And they blessed Rebecca, and sayde vnto her: thou art our sister, growe into thousande thousandes, and thy seede possesse the gate of his enemies.
  • Ruth 4:11-12 : 11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, sayde, We are witnesses: The Lord make the woma that is come into thyne house, lyke Rahel and Lea, whiche twayne dyd buylde the house of Israel: & that thou mayest do worthyly in Ephrata, and be famous in Bethlehem. 12 Thy house be like the house of Pharez (whom Thamar bare vnto Iuda) eue of the seede whiche the Lord shall geue thee of this young woman.
  • Gen 28:3 : 3 And God almyghtie blesse thee, and make thee to encrease, & multiplie thee, that thou mayest be a number of people:
  • Num 2:18-21 : 18 On the west side shalbe the standerd of the campe of Ephraim, accordyng to their armies, and the captaine ouer the sonnes of Ephraim, shalbe Elisama the sonne of Amihud. 19 His hoast and the number of them, fourtie thousande and fiue hundred. 20 And fast by hym, shalbe the tribe of Manasse: and the captayne ouer the sonnes of Manasse, shalbe Gamaliel the sonne of Pedazur. 21 His hoast and the number of them, thirtie and two thousande, and two hundred.
  • Num 7:48 : 48 The seuenth day, Elisama the sonne of Amiud, captayne of the children of Ephraim, offered:
  • Num 7:54 : 54 The eyght day, offered Gamaliel the sonne of Pedazur, the captayne of the children of Manasses.
  • Num 10:22-23 : 22 And the standerd of the hoast of the chyldren of Ephraim went foorth accordyng to their armies, whose captayne was Elisama the sonne of Ammiud. 23 And ouer the hoast of the tribe of the sonnes of Manasse, was Gamaliel the sonne of Pedazur.
  • Num 13:8 : 8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osea the sonne of Nun.
  • Num 13:11 : 11 Of the tribe of Ioseph, namely of the tribe of Manasse, Gaddi the sonne of Susi.
  • Num 13:16 : 16 These are the names of the men which Moyses sent to spie out the land: And Moyses called the name of Osea the sonne of Nun, Iosuah.

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  • Gen 48:8-19
    12 verses
    82%

    8And Israel beheld Iosephes sonnes, and sayde: What are these?

    9Ioseph sayde vnto his father: They are my sonnes whiche God hath geuen me here. And he sayde: Oh bring them to me, and let me blesse them.

    10(And the eyes of Israel were dymme for age, so that he coulde not well see) And he brought them to hym, and he kyssed them, and imbraced them.

    11And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph, I had not thought to haue seene thy face: and yet loe, God hath shewed me also thy seede.

    12And Ioseph toke them away fro his lappe, and he bowed hym selfe with his face towarde the earth.

    13Then toke Ioseph them both, Ephraim with his ryght hande towarde Israels left hande, and Manasses with his left hande towarde Israels ryght hande, and brought them vnto hym.

    14And Israel stretched out his ryght hande, and layed it vppon Ephraims head, which was the younger: and his left hande vpon Manasses head, guydyng his hande wyttyngly, for Manasses was the first borne.

    15And he blessed Ioseph, and sayde: God in whose syght my fathers Abraham & Isahac dyd walke, God which hath fedde me al my lyfe long vnto this day,

    16And the angell which hath deliuered me from al euyl, blesse these laddes, and let my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham & Isahac, & that they may growe into a multitude in the middes of the earth.

    17When Ioseph sawe that his father layed his ryght hande vpon the head of Ephraim, it displeased hym: and he lift vp his fathers hande, to haue remoued it from Ephraims head vnto Manasses head.

    18And Ioseph sayde vnto his father, Not so my father, for this is the first borne: put thy right hande vpon his head.

    19And his father would not, but sayde: I knowe it well my sonne, I knowe it well, he shalbe also a people, and shalbe great: But his younger brother shalbe greater then he, and his seede shall become a great people.

  • Gen 48:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    21And Israel said vnto Ioseph: behold I dye, & God shalbe with you, & bryng you againe vnto ye land of your fathers.

    22Moreouer, I haue geuen vnto thee a portion of lande aboue thy brethren, which I gat out of the hand of the Amorite in my sworde, and in my bowe.

  • Gen 48:3-6
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    77%

    3And Iacob sayd vnto Ioseph: God almyghtie appeared vnto me at Luz in the lande of Chanaan, and blessed me, and sayde vnto me:

    4Beholde, I wyll make thee fruiteful, and cause thee to multiplie, and wyll make a great number of people of thee, and wyll geue this lande vnto thy seede after thee vnto an euerlastyng possession.

    5And nowe thy two sonnes Manasses and Ephraim, whiche were borne vnto thee in the land of Egypt before I came vnto thee into Egypt, are myne, euen as Ruben and Simeon are mine.

    6And the children which thou hast gotten after them, shalbe thyne owne, and shalbe called after the names of their brethren in their inheritaunce.

  • Gen 49:25-26
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    75%

    25From thy fathers God which hath helped thee, and from the almyghtie which hath blessed thee with blessinges from heauen aboue, with blessynges of the deepe that lyeth vnder, & with blessynges of the brestes and of the wombe.

    26The blessynges of thy fathers shall be stronger then the blessinges of my elders: vnto the vtmost of the hylles of the worlde, they shalbe on the head of Ioseph, and on the toppe of the head of hym that was seperate from his brethren.

  • Num 26:28
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    28The chyldren of Ioseph throughout their kinredes, were Manasse and Ephraim.

  • Gen 48:1
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    1After these deedes, one tolde Ioseph: beholde, thy father is sicke. And he toke with hym his two sonnes, Manasses and Ephraim.

  • Gen 50:23
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    23And Ioseph sawe Ephraims children euen vnto the thirde generation: and vnto Machir the sonne of Manasses, were chyldren borne on Iosephes knees.

  • Gen 49:28
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    28All these are the twelue tribes of Israel: and this their father spake vnto them, and blessed them, euery one of them blessed he with a seueral blessing.

  • Gen 41:51-52
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    74%

    51And Ioseph called the name of the first sonne, Manasse: for God sayde he hath made me forget al my labour, and all my fathers housholde.

    52The name of the seconde called he Ephraim, for God sayd he hath caused me to be fruitefull in the lande of my trouble.

  • Gen 47:7
    73%

    7And Ioseph brought in Iacob his father, and set hym before Pharao: and Iacob blessed Pharao.

  • Ezek 48:5
    73%

    5Upon the borders of Manasses, from the east side vnto the west, shall Ephraim haue his portion.

  • Gen 46:20
    72%

    20And vnto Ioseph in the lande of Egypt, were borne Manasses, and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipera priest of On bare vnto him.

  • Gen 28:3-4
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    72%

    3And God almyghtie blesse thee, and make thee to encrease, & multiplie thee, that thou mayest be a number of people:

    4And geue the blessing of Abraham vnto thee, and to thy seede with thee, that thou mayest receaue to inherite ye lande wherein thou art a straunger, whiche God gaue vnto Abraham.

  • Gen 27:29
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    29People be thy seruauntes, and nations bowe to thee: be lorde ouer thy brethren, and thy mothers children stowpe with reuerence vnto thee: cursed be he that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.

  • Deut 33:16
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    16And for the fuites of the earth, and fulnesse therof: and for the good wyll of hym that dwelt in the bushe, shall the blessing come vpon the head of Ioseph, and vpon the toppe of the head of hym that was seperated from among his brethren.

  • Heb 11:20
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    20By fayth did Isaac blesse Iacob and Esau, concernyng thynges to come.

  • Josh 17:17
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    17And Iasuah sayde vnto the house of Ioseph, Ephraim, & Manasses: Ye be much people, and haue great power, and shall not therfore haue one lotte.

  • Isa 19:25
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    25Which lande the Lorde of hoastes hath blessed, saying: blessed is my people of Egypt, Assur also is the worke of my handes, and Israel is mine inheritaunce.

  • Deut 33:1
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    1This is the blessyng wherwith Moyses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death, and sayde:

  • Deut 27:12
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    12These shall stande vpon mount Garizim to blesse the people, when ye are come ouer Iordane, Simeon, Leui, Iuda, Isachar, Ioseph, & Beniamin.

  • Isa 9:21
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    21Manasses shall eate Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasses, and they both together shall eate Iuda: After all this is not the Lordes wrath ceassed, but yet his hande stretched out styll.

  • Josh 16:4
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    4And so the children of Ioseph, Manasses, & Ephraim, toke their inheritaunce.

  • Deut 33:13
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    13And of Ioseph he sayde: Blessed of the Lorde is his lande for the fruites of heauen, through the deawe & springes that lye beneath,