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And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/48-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Israel said unto Joseph: ‘I had not thought to see thy face; and, lo, God hath let me see thy seed also.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/48-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Joseph brought them out from between his knees; and he fell down on his face to the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/48-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And 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 unto him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/48-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/48-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he blessed Joseph, and said: ‘The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath been my shepherd all my life long unto this day, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/48-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>the angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/48-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And when Joseph saw that his father was laying his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/48-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Joseph said unto his father: ‘Not so, my father, for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/48-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And his father refused, and said: ‘I know it, my son, I know it; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/48-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And he blessed them that day, saying: ‘By thee shall Israel bless, saying: God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh.’ And he set Ephraim before Manasseh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/48-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Israel said unto Joseph: ‘Behold, I die; but God will be with you, and bring you back unto the land of your fathers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/48-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Moreover I have given to thee one <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">a</a></span>portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.’<hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><br>{fn: a} Heb. schechem, shoulder.</span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/47.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 47"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 47" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/49.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 49"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 49" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/genesis/48-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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