jSee Num. 23:22
Genesis 41:52
52The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has amade me fruitful in the land of my affliction.” ▼▼ Ephraim sounds like the Hebrew for making fruitful
Genesis 48:19
19But his father refused and said, c“I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, dhis younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude ▼▼Hebrew fullness
of nations.” Genesis 49:22
22 “Joseph is fa fruitful bough,a fruitful bough by a spring;
his branches run over the wall. ▼
▼Or Joseph is a wild donkey, a wild donkey beside a spring, his wild colts beside the wall
Deuteronomy 33:17
17 hA firstborn bull ▼▼Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Samaritan; Masoretic Text His firstborn bull
—he has majesty,and his horns are the horns of a jwild ox;
with them khe shall gore the peoples,
all of them, to the ends of the earth;
lthey are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”
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