acSee Num. 23:22
Genesis 41:50-52
50Before the year of famine came, atwo sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him. 51Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.” ▼▼ Manasseh sounds like the Hebrew for making to forget
52The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has cmade me fruitful in the land of my affliction.” ▼▼ Ephraim sounds like the Hebrew for making fruitful
Genesis 48:4-5
4and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you efor an everlasting possession.’ 5And now your ftwo sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, gare mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.Genesis 48:13-14
13And 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 him. 14 hAnd 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, icrossing his hands (for Manasseh was the firstborn).Genesis 48:20
20So he blessed them that day, saying,“By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying,
j‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.’”
Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
Numbers 1:32-35
32Of the people of Joseph, namely, of the people of Ephraim, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 33those listed of the tribe of Ephraim were k40,500.34Of the people of Manasseh, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, 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 l32,200.
Numbers 26:28-37
28The sons of mJoseph according to their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim. 29 nThe sons of Manasseh: of oMachir, the clan of the Machirites; and Machir was the father of Gilead; pof Gilead, the clan of the Gileadites. 30These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the clan of the Iezerites; of Helek, the clan of the Helekites; 31and of Asriel, the clan of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the clan of the Shechemites; 32and of Shemida, the clan of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the clan of the Hepherites. 33Now qZelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters. And the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 34These are the clans of Manasseh, and those listed were r52,700.35These are the sons of Ephraim according to their clans: of Shuthelah, the clan of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the clan of the Becherites; of Tahan, the clan of the Tahanites. 36And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the clan of the Eranites. 37These are the clans of the sons of Ephraim as they were listed, s32,500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their clans.
Deuteronomy 33:13-17
13And tof Joseph he said,u“Blessed by the Lord be his land,
with the choicest gifts of heaven vabove, ▼
▼Two Hebrew manuscripts and Targum; Hebrew with the dew
and of the deep that crouches beneath,
14with the choicest fruits of the sun
and the rich yield of the months,
15with the finest produce of the ancient mountains
and the abundance of xthe everlasting hills,
16with the best gifts of the earth and yits fullness
and the favor of zhim who dwells in the bush.
May these rest on the head of Joseph,
on the pate of him who is prince among his brothers.
17 aaA firstborn bull ▼
▼Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Samaritan; Masoretic Text His firstborn bull
—he has majesty,and his horns are the horns of a acwild ox;
with them adhe shall gore the peoples,
all of them, to the ends of the earth;
aethey are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”
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