Genesis 48

1After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.Cross-references: Gen 41:50 · Gen 46:20 · Gen 50:23 · Job 42:16 · Ps 128:6 · John 11:3

2Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.Cross-references: Deut 3:28 · 1Sam 23:16 · Neh 2:18 · Ps 41:3 · Prov 23:15 · Eph 6:10

3Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,Cross-references: Gen 17:1 · Gen 28:3 · Gen 28:12 · Gen 35:6 · Gen 35:9 · Ex 6:3 · +3 more

4and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 13:15 · Gen 17:8 · Gen 17:13 · Gen 22:17 · Gen 26:4 · +10 more

5Now 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.Cross-references: Gen 41:50 · Gen 46:20 · Lev 20:26 · Num 1:10 · Num 1:32 · Num 26:28 · +10 more

6Your offspring, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.Cross-references: Josh 14:4

7As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”Cross-references: Gen 25:20 · Gen 35:9 · Gen 35:16 · Ruth 1:2 · 1Sam 1:1 · 1Sam 10:2 · +3 more

8Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, “Who are these?”

9Joseph 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.”Cross-references: Gen 27:4 · Gen 27:28 · Gen 27:34 · Gen 28:3 · Gen 30:2 · Gen 33:5 · +12 more

10Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.Cross-references: Gen 27:1 · Gen 27:27 · Gen 31:55 · Gen 45:15 · 1Sam 3:2 · 1Sam 4:15 · +3 more

11Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”Cross-references: Gen 37:33 · Gen 37:35 · Gen 42:36 · Gen 45:26 · Eph 3:20

12Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.Cross-references: Gen 18:2 · Gen 19:1 · Gen 23:7 · Gen 33:3 · Gen 42:6 · Ex 20:12 · +7 more

13Joseph 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.

14Israel 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.Cross-references: Gen 41:51 · Gen 46:20 · Gen 48:18 · Ex 15:6 · Num 8:10 · Num 8:18 · +14 more

15He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,Cross-references: Gen 5:22 · Gen 6:9 · Gen 17:1 · Gen 24:20 · Gen 27:4 · Gen 28:3 · +26 more

16the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”Cross-references: Gen 1:21 · Gen 16:7 · Gen 28:13 · Gen 31:11 · Gen 32:28 · Gen 48:5 · +33 more

17When 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.Cross-references: Gen 28:8 · Gen 38:10 · Gen 48:14 · Num 11:1 · Num 22:34 · 1Sam 16:7 · +5 more

18Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”Cross-references: Gen 19:18 · Gen 27:15 · Gen 29:26 · Gen 43:33 · Gen 49:3 · Ex 10:11 · +3 more

19His 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 offspring will become a multitude of nations.”Cross-references: Gen 17:20 · Gen 25:28 · Gen 48:14 · Num 1:33 · Num 2:19 · Deut 1:10 · +6 more

20He blessed them that day, saying, “Israel will bless in your name, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.Cross-references: Gen 24:60 · Gen 28:3 · Num 2:18 · Num 7:48 · Num 7:54 · Num 10:22 · +4 more

21Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.Cross-references: Gen 12:5 · Gen 15:14 · Gen 26:3 · Gen 28:15 · Gen 37:1 · Gen 46:4 · +19 more

22Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”Cross-references: Gen 15:16 · Gen 33:19 · Gen 34:28 · Deut 21:17 · Josh 17:14 · Josh 24:32 · +5 more