Genesis 41:52
And to the second he gave the name Ephraim, for he said, God has given me fruit in the land of my sorrow.

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Genesis 41:52
And to the second he gave the name Ephraim, for he said, God has given me fruit in the land of my sorrow.

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Genesis 41:51
And to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house.

Genesis 46:20
And Joseph had Manasseh and Ephraim in the land of Egypt, by Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On.

Genesis 48:5
And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are.

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Genesis 48:16
The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth.

Genesis 48:17
Now when Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it did not seem right to him; and lifting his father's hand he would have put it on the head of Manasseh.

Genesis 48:18
And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the older; put your right hand on his head.

Genesis 48:19
But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations.

Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain;

Deuteronomy 33:17
He is a young ox, glory is his; his horns are the horns of the mountain ox, with which all peoples will be wounded, even to the ends of the earth: they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.

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Hosea 13:15
Though he gives fruit among his brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the waste land, and his spring will become dry, his fountain will be without water: it will make waste the store of all the vessels of his desire.

Hosea 9:11
As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life.


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