Genesis 48:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And it cometh to pass, after these things, that `one' saith to Joseph, `Lo, thy father is sick;' and he taketh his two sons with him, Manasseh and Ephraim.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 41:50-52 : 50 And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine cometh, whom Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, hath borne to him, 51 and Joseph calleth the name of the first-born Manasseh: `for, God hath made me to forget all my labour, and all the house of my father;' 52 and the name of the second he hath called Ephraim: `for, God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of mine affliction.'
  • Gen 46:20 : 20 And born to Joseph in the land of Egypt (whom Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, hath borne to him) `are' Manasseh and Ephraim.
  • Gen 50:23 : 23 and Joseph looketh on Ephraim's sons of the third `generation'; sons also of Machir, son of Manasseh, have been born on the knees of Joseph.
  • Job 42:16 : 16 And Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and seeth his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations;
  • Ps 128:6 : 6 And see the sons of thy sons! Peace on Israel!
  • John 11:3 : 3 therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, `Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;'

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  • Gen 48:2
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    2And `one' declareth to Jacob, and saith, `Lo, thy son Joseph is coming unto thee;' and Israel doth strengthen himself, and sit upon the bed.

  • Gen 48:8-15
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    8And Israel seeth the sons of Joseph, and saith, `Who `are' these?'

    9and Joseph saith unto his father, `They `are' my sons, whom God hath given to me in this `place';' and he saith, `Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I bless them.'

    10And the eyes of Israel have been heavy from age, he is unable to see; and he bringeth them nigh unto him, and he kisseth them, and cleaveth to them;

    11and Israel saith unto Joseph, `To see thy face I had not thought, and lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.'

    12And Joseph bringeth them out from between his knees, and boweth himself on his face to the earth;

    13and Joseph taketh them both, Ephraim in his right hand towards Israel's left, and Manasseh in his left towards Israel's right, and bringeth `them' nigh to him.

    14And Israel putteth out his right hand, and placeth `it' upon the head of Ephraim, who `is' the younger, and his left hand upon the head of Manasseh; he hath guided his hands wisely, for Manasseh `is' the first-born.

    15And he blesseth Joseph, and saith, `God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked habitually: God who is feeding me from my being unto this day:

  • Gen 48:20-21
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    20and he blesseth them in that day, saying, `By thee doth Israel bless, saying, God set thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh;' and he setteth Ephraim before Manasseh.

    21And Israel saith unto Joseph, `Lo, I am dying, and God hath been with you, and hath brought you back unto the land of your fathers;

  • Gen 48:17-18
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    17And Joseph seeth that his father setteth his right hand on the head of Ephraim, and it is wrong in his eyes, and he supporteth the hand of his father to turn it aside from off the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh;

    18and Joseph saith unto his father, `Not so, my father, for this `is' the first-born; set thy right hand on his head.'

  • Num 26:28
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    28Sons of Joseph by their families `are' Manasseh and Ephraim.

  • Gen 47:5
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    5And Pharaoh speaketh unto Joseph, saying, `Thy father and thy brethren have come unto thee:

  • Gen 46:28-31
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    28And Judah he hath sent before him unto Joseph, to direct before him to Goshen, and they come into the land of Goshen;

    29and Joseph harnesseth his chariot, and goeth up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and appeareth unto him, and falleth on his neck, and weepeth on his neck again;

    30and Israel saith unto Joseph, `Let me die this time, after my seeing thy face, for thou `art' yet alive.'

    31And Joseph saith unto his brethren, and unto the house of his father, `I go up, and declare to Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and the house of my father who `are' in the land of Canaan have come in unto me;

  • Gen 50:23
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    23and Joseph looketh on Ephraim's sons of the third `generation'; sons also of Machir, son of Manasseh, have been born on the knees of Joseph.

  • Gen 48:5
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    5`And now, thy two sons, who are born to thee in the land of Egypt, before my coming unto thee to Egypt, mine they `are'; Ephraim and Manasseh, as Reuben and Simeon they are mine;

  • Gen 50:1-2
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    1And Joseph falleth on his father's face, and weepeth over him, and kisseth him;

    2and Joseph commandeth his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalm Israel;

  • Gen 50:14
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    14And Joseph turneth back to Egypt, he and his brethren, and all who are going up with him to bury his father, after his burying his father.

  • Gen 50:16
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    16And they give a charge for Joseph, saying, `Thy father commanded before his death, saying,

  • Gen 45:25
    75%

    25And they go up out of Egypt, and come in to the land of Canaan, unto Jacob their father,

  • Gen 47:7
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    7And Joseph bringeth in Jacob his father, and causeth him to stand before Pharaoh; and Jacob blesseth Pharaoh.

  • Gen 45:27-28
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    27And they speak unto him all the words of Joseph, which he hath spoken unto them, and he seeth the waggons which Joseph hath sent to bear him away, and live doth the spirit of Jacob their father;

    28and Israel saith, `Enough! Joseph my son `is' yet alive; I go and see him before I die.'

  • Gen 45:9
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    9`Haste, and go up unto my father, then ye have said to him, Thus said Joseph thy son, God hath set me for lord to all Egypt; come down unto me, stay not,

  • Gen 42:29
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    29And they come in unto Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and they declare to him all the things meeting them, saying,

  • Gen 47:1
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    1And Joseph cometh, and declareth to Pharaoh, and saith, `My father, and my brethren, and their flock, and their herd, and all they have, have come from the land of Canaan, and lo, they `are' in the land of Goshen.'

  • Gen 50:7
    73%

    7And Joseph goeth up to bury his father, and go up with him do all the servants of Pharaoh, elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

  • Gen 41:51
    73%

    51and Joseph calleth the name of the first-born Manasseh: `for, God hath made me to forget all my labour, and all the house of my father;'

  • Gen 45:4
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    4And Joseph saith unto his brethren, `Come nigh unto me, I pray you,' and they come nigh; and he saith, `I `am' Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt;

  • Gen 42:36
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    36and Jacob their father saith unto them, `Me ye have bereaved; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take -- against me have been all these.'