Genesis 48 (NET)

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Genesis 48:1¹After these things Joseph was told, “Your father is weakening.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 41:50-52 Gen 46:20 Gen 50:23 Ps 128:6 John 11:3

Genesis 48:2²When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has just come to you,” Israel regained strength and sat up on his bed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 23:16 Deut 3:28 Eph 6:10 Prov 23:15 Ps 41:3 Neh 2:18

Genesis 48:3³Jacob said to Joseph, “The Sovereign God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 35:9-12 Exod 6:3 Gen 17:1 Gen 28:3 Gen 28:12-19 Gen 35:6-7 Hos 12:4 Judg 1:23 Rev 21:11

Genesis 48:4⁴He said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and will multiply you. I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 17:8 Gen 35:11 Amos 9:14-15 Deut 32:8 Exod 1:7 Gen 12:2 Gen 13:15-16 Gen 17:13 Gen 22:17 Gen 26:4

Genesis 48:5⁵“Now, as for your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, they will be mine. Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine just as Reuben and Simeon are.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 41:50-52 Gen 46:20 Josh 14:4 1 Chr 5:1-2 Josh 13:7 2 Cor 6:18 Rev 7:6-7 Eph 1:5 Ezek 16:8 Isa 43:1

Genesis 48:6⁶Any children that you father after them will be yours; they will be listed under the names of their brothers in their inheritance.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 14:4

Genesis 48:7⁷But as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, Rachel died—to my sorrow —in the land of Canaan. It happened along the way, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there on the way to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 35:16-19 Gen 35:9 Matt 2:18 1 Sam 1:1 1 Sam 10:2 1 Sam 17:12 Gen 25:20 Mic 5:2 Ruth 1:2

Genesis 48:8⁸When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he asked, “Who are these?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 48:9⁹Joseph said to his father, “They are the sons God has given me in this place.” His father said, “Bring them to me so I may bless them.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 27:4 Gen 33:5 Heb 11:21 1 Chr 25:5 1 Chr 26:4-5 1 Sam 1:20 1 Sam 1:27 1 Sam 2:20-21 Deut 33:1 Gen 27:28-29

Genesis 48:10¹⁰Now Israel’s eyes were failing because of his age; he was not able to see well. So Joseph brought his sons near to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 27:1 Gen 27:27 1 Kgs 19:20 1 Sam 3:2 1 Sam 4:15 Gen 31:55 Gen 45:15 Isa 59:1 Isa 6:10

Genesis 48:11¹¹Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see you again, but now God has allowed me to see your children too.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eph 3:20 Gen 45:26 Gen 37:33 Gen 37:35 Gen 42:36

Genesis 48:12¹²So Joseph moved them from Israel’s knees and bowed down with his face to the ground.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 42:6 1 Kgs 2:19 2 Kgs 4:37 Eph 6:1 Exod 20:12 Exod 34:8 Gen 18:2 Gen 19:1 Gen 23:7 Gen 33:3

Genesis 48:13¹³Joseph positioned them; he put Ephraim on his right hand across from Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh on his left hand across from Israel’s right hand. Then Joseph brought them closer to his father.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 48:14¹⁴Israel stretched out his right hand and placed it on Ephraim’s head, although he was the younger. Crossing his hands, he put his left hand on Manasseh’s head, for Manasseh was the firstborn.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 41:51 1 Tim 4:14 1 Tim 5:22 Acts 13:3 Acts 6:6 Acts 8:17-19 Deut 34:9 Exod 15:6 Gen 46:20 Gen 48:18

Genesis 48:15¹⁵Then he blessed Joseph and said, “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked— the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 17:1 Col 2:6 Heb 11:21 1 Cor 10:31 1 Kgs 3:6 1 Tim 6:6-10 2 Cor 1:12 Deut 33:1 Eccl 2:24-25 Eccl 5:12

Genesis 48:16¹⁶the angel who has protected me from all harm— bless these boys. May my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. May they grow into a multitude on the earth.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 34:22 Gen 28:13-15 Gen 48:5 Gen 49:22 2 Tim 4:18 Acts 15:17 Josh 17:17 Num 26:28-37 Ps 121:7 Amos 9:12

Genesis 48:17¹⁷When Joseph saw that his father placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, it displeased him. So he took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 48:14 Rom 9:7-8 1 Chr 21:7 1 Kgs 16:25 1 Sam 16:7 Gen 28:8 Gen 38:10 Num 11:1 Prov 24:18 Rom 9:11

Genesis 48:18¹⁸Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 10:14 Acts 11:8 Exod 10:11 Gen 19:18 Gen 27:15 Gen 29:26 Gen 43:33 Gen 49:3 Matt 25:9

Genesis 48:19¹⁹But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He too will become a nation and he too will become great. In spite of this, his younger brother will be even greater and his descendants will become a multitude of nations.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 33:17 Num 1:33-35 Gen 17:20-21 Gen 25:28 Gen 48:14 Deut 1:10 Ezek 27:10 Isa 7:17 Num 2:19-21 Rev 7:6

Genesis 48:20²⁰So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you will Israel bless, saying, ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ruth 4:11-12 Gen 24:60 Gen 28:3 Num 10:22-23 Num 13:11 Num 13:16 Num 2:18-21 Num 7:48 Num 7:54