Genesis 48:19
His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”
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Genesis 48:19
His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”
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Genesis 48:20
He blessed them that day, saying, “Israel will bless in you, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’ ” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Deuteronomy 33:17
Majesty belongs to the firstborn of his herd. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all the peoples to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.”
Genesis 49:22
“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.
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Numbers 1:32
Of the children of Joseph: of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
Numbers 1:33
those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.
Numbers 1:34
Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
Numbers 1:35
those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
Numbers 2:18
“On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers 2:19
His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty thousand five hundred.
Numbers 26:34
These are the families of Manasseh. Those who were counted of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.
Numbers 26:37
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were counted of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
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Genesis 41:52
The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
Hosea 13:15
Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
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