Genesis 48:19

His 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.”

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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

18Joseph [May he add] said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”

20He blessed them that day, saying, “In you will Israel [God prevails] bless, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim [Fruit] and as Manasseh [Causing to forget]’” He set Ephraim [Fruit] before Manasseh [Causing to forget].

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Cross References

Genesis 25:23Adonai said to her, 1 “Two nations are in your womb. 1 Two peoples will be separated from your body. 1 The one people will be stronger than the other people. 1 The elder will serve the younger.” + 25:23. Quoted in Rom 9:12

Genesis 48:14Israel [God prevails] stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim [Fruit]’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh [Causing to forget]’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh [Causing to forget] was the firstborn.

Numbers 2:19His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty thousand five hundred.

Deuteronomy 33:17The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his. 2 His horns are the horns of the wild ox. 2 With them he will push all the peoples, to the ends of the earth. 1 They are the ten thousands of Ephraim [Fruit]. 2 They are the thousands of Manasseh [Causing to forget].” (4)

Isaiah 7:17Adonai will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim [Fruit] departed from Judah [Praised]; even the king of Assyria [Level plain].

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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