Genesis 48:1
Manasseh and Ephraim After these things Joseph was told,“Your father is weakening.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.
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- Gen 41:50-52 : 50 Two sons were born to Joseph before the famine came. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, was their mother. 51 Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying,“Certainly God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s house.” 52 He named the second child Ephraim, saying,“Certainly God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”
- Gen 46:20 : 20 Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore them to him.
- Gen 50:23 : 23 Joseph saw the descendants of Ephraim to the third generation. He also saw the children of Makir the son of Manasseh; they were given special inheritance rights by Joseph.
- Job 42:16 : 16 After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
- Ps 128:6 : 6 and that you might see your grandchildren. May Israel experience peace!
- John 11:3 : 3 So the sisters sent a message to Jesus,“Lord, look, the one you love is sick.”
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2When Jacob was told,“Your son Joseph has just come to you,” Israel regained strength and sat up on his bed.
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8When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he asked,“Who are these?”
9Joseph said to his father,“They are the sons God has given me in this place.” His father said,“Bring them to me so I may bless them.”
10Now Israel’s eyes were failing because of his age; he was not able to see well. So Joseph brought his sons near to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.
11Israel said to Joseph,“I never expected to see you again, but now God has allowed me to see your children too.”
12So Joseph moved them from Israel’s knees and bowed down with his face to the ground.
13Joseph positioned them; he put Ephraim on his right hand across from Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh on his left hand across from Israel’s right hand. Then Joseph brought them closer to his father.
14Israel stretched out his right hand and placed it on Ephraim’s head, although he was the younger. Crossing his hands, he put his left hand on Manasseh’s head, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
15Then he blessed Joseph and said,“May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked– the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,
- Gen 48:20-212 verses78%
20So he blessed them that day, saying,“By you will Israel bless, saying,‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’”So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
21Then Israel said to Joseph,“I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.
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17When Joseph saw that his father placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, it displeased him. So he took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
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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28Manasseh The descendants of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
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5Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Your father and your brothers have come to you.
- Gen 46:28-314 verses76%
28Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen. So they came to the land of Goshen.
29Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him, he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.
30Israel said to Joseph,“Now let me die since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.”
31Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household,“I will go up and tell Pharaoh,‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.
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23Joseph saw the descendants of Ephraim to the third generation. He also saw the children of Makir the son of Manasseh; they were given special inheritance rights by Joseph.
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5“Now, as for your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, they will be mine. Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine just as Reuben and Simeon are.
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1The Burials of Jacob and Joseph Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. He wept over him and kissed him.
2Joseph instructed the physicians in his service to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.
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14After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.
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16So they sent word to Joseph, saying,“Your father gave these instructions before he died:
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25So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.
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7Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
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27But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob’s spirit revived.
28Then Israel said,“Enough! My son Joseph is still alive! I will go and see him before I die.”
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9Now go up to my father quickly and tell him,‘This is what your son Joseph says:“God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay!
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29They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,
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1Joseph’s Wise Administration Joseph went and told Pharaoh,“My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen.”
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7So Joseph went up to bury his father; all Pharaoh’s officials went with him– the senior courtiers of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,
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51Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying,“Certainly God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s house.”
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4Joseph said to his brothers,“Come closer to me,” so they came near. Then he said,“I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
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36Their father Jacob said to them,“You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me.”