And it came to pass after
these things,
that one told
Joseph,
Behold, thy father
is sick:
and he took
with him his two
sons,
Manasseh
and Ephraim.
And one told
Jacob,
and said,
Behold, thy son
Joseph
cometh
unto thee: and Israel
strengthened
himself, and sat
upon the bed.
And Jacob
said
unto Joseph,
God
Almighty
appeared
unto me at Luz
in the land
of Canaan,
and blessed
me,
And said
unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful,
and multiply
thee, and I will make
of thee a multitude
of people;
and will give
this land
to thy seed
after thee
for an everlasting
possession.
say
And now thy two
sons,
Ephraim
and Manasseh,
which were born
unto thee in the land
of Egypt
before
I came
unto thee into Egypt,
are mine; as Reuben
and Simeon,
they shall be mine.
And thy issue,
which thou begettest
after
them, shall be thine, and shall be called
after
the name
of their brethren
in their inheritance.
And as for me, when I came
from Padan,
Rachel
died
by me in the land
of Canaan
in the way,
when
yet there was but a little
way
to come
unto Ephrath:
and I buried her
there in the way
of Ephrath;
the same is Bethlehem.
chariot-road
ἱππόδρομον
hippodromon
Chabrathah
χαβραθα
chabratha
Ephratha
Εφραθα
ephratha
bury in the ground
κατώρυξα
katōryxa
chariot-road
ἱπποδρόμου
hippodromou
Baithleem
Βαιθλεεμ
baithleem
And Israel
beheld
Joseph's
sons,
and said,
Who are these?
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.
say
in that place
ἐνταῦθα
entautha
say
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.
dim-sighted
ἐβαρυώπησαν
ebaryōpēsan
embrace
περιέλαβεν
perielaben
And Israel
said
unto Joseph,
I had not thought
to see
thy face:
and, lo, God
hath shewed
me also thy seed.
And Joseph
brought them out
from between
his knees,
and he bowed
himself with his face
to the earth.
And Joseph
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
unto him.
And Israel
stretched out
his right hand,
and laid
it upon Ephraim's
head,
who was the younger,
and his left hand
upon Manasseh's
head,
guiding
his hands
wittingly;
for Manasseh
was the firstborn.
crosswise
ἐναλλὰξ
enallax
And he blessed
Joseph,
and said,
God,
before
whom my fathers
Abraham
and Isaac
did walk,
the God
which fed
me all my life long
unto this day,
say
The Angel
which 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;
and let them grow
into a multitude
in the midst
of the earth.
And when Joseph
saw
that his father
laid
his right
hand
upon the head
of Ephraim,
it displeased
him: and he held up
his father's
hand,
to remove
it from Ephraim's
head
unto Manasseh's
head.
appear
κατεφάνη
katephanē
And Joseph
said
unto his father,
Not so, my father:
for this is the firstborn;
put
thy right hand
upon his head.
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.
say
aware
οἶδα
oida
aware
οἶδα
oida
And 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.
And Israel
said
unto Joseph,
Behold, I die:
but God
shall be with you, and bring you again
unto the land
of your fathers.
Moreover I have given
to thee one
portion
above thy brethren,
which I took
out of the hand
of the Amorite
with my sword
and with my bow.
