Genesis 48:9
Joseph replied, “They are the sons that God has given to me here in Egypt.” Jacob said, “Bring them close to me so that I can bless them.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
8When Jacob saw Joseph’s sons, he asked, “Who are these boys?”
Cross References
Genesis 27:28I ask that God will send down to you dew from heaven to water your fields, and cause you to have abundant crops, good harvests of grain, and grapes for wine.
Genesis 28:3I will pray that God Almighty will bless you, and enable you to get married and have many descendants, in order that they will become many people-groups.
Genesis 33:5Then Esau looked up and saw the women and the children. He asked, “Who are these people who are with you?” Jacob replied, “These are the wives and children that God has graciously/kindly given to me.”
Deuteronomy 33:1Before God’s prophet Moses died, he asked God to bless the Israeli people.
1 Samuel 1:20and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, which sounds like the words in the Hebrew language that mean ‘heard by God’, because she said “Yahweh heard me when I requested from him a son.”
1 Samuel 2:20Then Eli would ask God to bless Elkanah and his wife, and he would say to Elkanah, “I hope/desire that Yahweh will enable your wife to give birth to other children, to take the place of the one whom she dedicated to Yahweh.” Then Elkanah and his family would return home.
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 →