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Genesis 48:20

WEB

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.

KJV

20And he blessed[+] them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

BSB

20So that day Jacob blessed them and said: “By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

FBV

20So Israel blessed them that day and said: “In the future the people of Israel will use your names to give a blessing, saying, ‘May God bless you like he did Ephraim and Manasseh.’” In saying this he placed Ephraim before Manasseh.

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Extra References

Genesis 24:60

60They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”

Ruth 4:11-12

11All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. 12Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring[+] which the LORD will give you by this young woman.”

Genesis 28:3

3May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

Numbers 13:11

11Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.

Numbers 10:22-23

22The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army. 23Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh.

Numbers 2:18-21

18“On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. 19His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty thousand five hundred.

20“Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh. The prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 21His division, and those who were counted of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

Numbers 13:16

16These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.

Numbers 7:54

54On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh,

Numbers 7:48

48On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim,

Numbers 13:8

8Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.