Genesis 48:19

And aviv refused, and said, I know it, beni (my son), I know it; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly achiv hakaton shall be greater than he, and his zera shall become a multitude of Goyim.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

In Context

18And Yosef said unto aviv, Not so, Avi; for this is the bechor; put thy yamin upon his rosh.

20And he made a brocha on them that day, saying, In thee shall Yisroel bless, saying, Elohim make thee like Ephrayim and like Menasheh; and he set Ephrayim before Menasheh.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:23And Hashem said unto her, 1 Two goyim (nations) are in thy womb, 1 and two peoples shall be separated from within thee; 1 and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; 1 and the older shall serve the younger.

Genesis 48:14And Yisroel stretched out his yamin, and laid it upon rosh Ephrayim, who was the younger, and his smol upon rosh Menasheh, guiding his hands intentionally; for Menasheh was the bechor.

Numbers 2:19And his tz'va (host), and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.

Deuteronomy 33:17His glory is like the bechor of his shor, 1 and his horns are like the horns of a wild ox; 1 with them he shall push the people 1 together to the ends of ha'aretz; 1 and they are the ten thousands of Ephrayim, 1 and they are the thousands of Menasheh. 1

Isaiah 7:17Hashem shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the Bais of thy father, yamim such as have not come since the yom when Ephrayim departed from Yehudah: + 7:17 2Kgs 15:29; 16:9 even Melech Ashur (Assyria).

Revelation 7:6Of the shevet of Asher, 12,000, 1 of the shevet of Naphtali, 12,000, 1 of the shevet of Menasheh, 12,000, 1

Matthew Henry on Genesis 48:9-22

Jacob Blesses the Sons of Joseph; Jacob's Dying Prophecy. ( b. c. 1689.) 8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these? 9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. 10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. 11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God… Read the whole commentary →

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