p[See ver. 17 above]
bd[See ver. 34 above]
bh[See ver. 36 above]

Genesis 30:22-24

22Then God aremembered Rachel, and God listened to her and bopened her womb. 23She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away cmy reproach.” 24And she called his name Joseph,
 Joseph means May he add, and sounds like the Hebrew for taken away
saying, e“May the Lord add to me another son!”

Genesis 41:52

52The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has fmade me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
 Ephraim sounds like the Hebrew for making fruitful


Genesis 46:27

27And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. hAll the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.

Genesis 48:1

Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh

1After this, Joseph was told, “Behold, your father is ill.” So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 48:5

5And now your itwo sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, jare mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.

Genesis 48:16

16 kthe angel who has lredeemed me from all evil, bless the boys;
and in them let mmy name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
and let them ngrow into a multitude
Or  let them be like fish for multitude
in the midst of the earth.”

Genesis 48:19-20

19But his father refused and said, p“I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, qhis younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude
Hebrew fullness
of nations.”
20So he blessed them that day, saying,

“By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying,
sGod make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.’”
Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

Numbers 32

Reuben and Gad Settle in Gilead

1Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of tJazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock. 2So the people of Gad and the people of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the congregation, 3 uAtaroth, vDibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, wNebo, and Beon, 4the land xthat the Lord struck down before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.” 5And they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us across the Jordan.”

6But Moses said to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to the war while you sit here? 7Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land that the Lord has given them? 8Your fathers did this, ywhen I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. 9For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the Lord had given them. 10 zAnd the Lord’s anger was kindled on that day, and he swore, saying, 11Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, aafrom twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give abto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me, 12none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the acKenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for adthey have wholly followed the Lord.’ 13And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them aewander in the wilderness forty years, until afall the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone. 14And behold, you have risen in your fathersplace, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel! 15For if you agturn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.”

16Then they came near to him and said, ah“We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones, 17but aiwe will take up arms, ready to go before the people of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 18 ajWe will not return to our homes until each of the people of Israel has gained his inheritance. 19For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, akbecause our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east.” 20So alMoses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the Lord for the war, 21and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the Lord, until he has amdriven out his enemies from before him 22and the land is subdued before the Lord; then after that you shall return and be free of obligation to the Lord and to Israel, and anthis land shall be your possession before the Lord. 23But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and aobe sure your sin will find you out. 24 apBuild cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what you have promised.” 25And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben said to Moses, “Your servants will do as my lord commands. 26 aqOur little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead, 27 arbut your servants will pass over, every man who is asarmed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord orders.”

28So atMoses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to auJoshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel. 29And Moses said to them, “If the people of Gad and the people of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle before the Lord, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession. 30However, if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.” 31And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben answered, “What the Lord has said to your servants, we will do. 32We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”

33And avMoses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country. 34And the people of Gad built awDibon, axAtaroth, ayAroer, 35Atroth-shophan, azJazer, Jogbehah, 36 baBeth-nimrah and Beth-haran, bbfortified cities, and folds for sheep. 37And the people of Reuben built bcHeshbon, bdElealeh, Kiriathaim, 38 beNebo, and bfBaal-meon ( bgtheir names were changed), and bhSibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built. 39And the sons of biMachir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it. 40And Moses bjgave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he settled in it. 41And bkJair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.
 Havvoth-jair means the villages of Jair
42And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

Deuteronomy 33:17

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