Genesis 17:20-21

20As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and amultiply him greatly. He bshall father twelve princes, and cI will make him into a great nation. 21But dI will establish my covenant with Isaac, ewhom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.”

Genesis 25:28

28Isaac loved Esau because fhe ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Genesis 48:14

14 gAnd Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, hcrossing his hands (for Manasseh was the firstborn).

Numbers 1:33-35

33those listed of the tribe of Ephraim were i40,500.

34Of the people of Manasseh, their generations, by their clans, by their fathershouses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 35those listed of the tribe of Manasseh were j32,200.

Numbers 2:19-21

19his company as listed being 40,500. 20And next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh, the chief of the people of Manasseh being Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, 21his company as listed being 32,200.

Deuteronomy 33:17

17 kA firstborn bull
Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Samaritan; Masoretic Text His firstborn bull
—he has majesty,
and his horns are the horns of a mwild ox;
with them nhe shall gore the peoples,
all of them, to the ends of the earth;
othey are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”

Isaiah 7:17

17 pThe Lord will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father’s house such days as have not come since the day that qEphraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria!”

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