Genesis 48:5
5And now your atwo sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, bare mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.Genesis 48:14-20
14 cAnd 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, dcrossing his hands (for Manasseh was the firstborn). 15And he blessed Joseph and said,“The God ebefore whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,
16 fthe angel who has gredeemed me from all evil, bless the boys;
and in them let hmy name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
and let them igrow into a multitude ▼
▼Or let them be like fish for multitude
in the midst of the earth.”17When Joseph saw that his father klaid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. 18And Joseph said to his father, “Not this way, my father; since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head.” 19But his father refused and said, l“I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, mhis 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,
o‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.’”
Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
Numbers 1:32
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:Numbers 10:22
22And pthe standard of the camp of the people of Ephraim set out by their companies, and over their company was qElishama the son of Ammihud.Deuteronomy 33:17
17 rA firstborn bull ▼▼Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Samaritan; Masoretic Text His firstborn bull
—he has majesty,and his horns are the horns of a twild ox;
with them uhe shall gore the peoples,
all of them, to the ends of the earth;
vthey are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”
Psalms 80:1-2
Restore Us, O God
To the choirmaster: according to wLilies. A Testimony. Of xAsaph, a Psalm.
1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,you who lead yJoseph like za flock.
You who are aaenthroned upon the cherubim, abshine forth.
2Before acEphraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,
adstir up your might
and aecome to save us!
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