Genesis 50:23

World English Bible (2000)

Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees.

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  • Num 32:39 : 39 The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
  • Job 42:16 : 16 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.
  • Gen 30:3 : 3 She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."
  • Ps 128:6 : 6 Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel. A Song of Ascents.
  • Josh 17:1 : 1 This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
  • Gen 48:19 : 19 His 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."
  • Gen 49:12 : 12 His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.
  • Num 32:33 : 33 Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it with [their] borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.

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  • Gen 48:8-15
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    80%

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

    9 Joseph 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."

    10 Now 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.

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

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

    13 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 to him.

    14 Israel 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.

    15 He 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,

  • Gen 46:20
    77%

    20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

  • Gen 48:1
    76%

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

  • Gen 50:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21 Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

    22 Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father's house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

  • Num 26:28
    76%

    28 The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

  • Gen 48:17-21
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    17 When 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.

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

    19 His 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."

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

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

  • Gen 41:50-52
    3 verses
    74%

    50 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

    51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."

    52 The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."

  • Gen 50:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

    25 Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."

  • Gen 33:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.

    7 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

  • Gen 48:5
    73%

    5 Now 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.

  • Gen 50:7-8
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    72%

    7 Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,

    8 all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 50:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

    14 Joseph returned into Egypt--he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

  • Gen 50:1
    72%

    1 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.

  • Gen 45:10
    71%

    10 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children's children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.

  • Exod 1:5-6
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    71%

    5 All the souls who came out of Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

    6 Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

  • Gen 47:7
    71%

    7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

  • Acts 7:13
    71%

    13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.

  • Gen 47:29
    70%

    29 The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don't bury me in Egypt,

  • Gen 46:4
    70%

    4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."

  • Gen 41:46
    70%

    46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 46:31
    70%

    31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

  • Josh 16:4
    70%

    4 The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.