Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 24:60 : 60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."
  • Ruth 4:11-12 : 11 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. 12 Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman."
  • Gen 28:3 : 3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
  • Num 2:18-21 : 18 "On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. 19 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty thousand five hundred. 20 "Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 21 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
  • Num 7:48 : 48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim
  • Num 7:54 : 54 On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh
  • Num 10:22-23 : 22 The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army. 23 Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh.
  • Num 13:8 : 8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
  • Num 13:11 : 11 Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
  • Num 13:16 : 16 These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.