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Genesis 48 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Gen 48:1

Gen 48:1It happened after these things, that someone said to Yosef, "Behold, your father is sick." He took with him his two sons, Menashsheh and Efrayim.

Gen 48:2

Gen 48:2Someone told Ya`akov, and said, "Behold, your son Yosef comes to you," and Yisra'el strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.

Gen 48:3

Gen 48:3Ya`akov said to Yosef, "El Shaddai appeared to me at Luz in the land of Kana`an, and blessed me,

Gen 48:4

Gen 48:4and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.'

Gen 48:5

Gen 48:5Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Mitzrayim before I came to you into Mitzrayim, are mine; Efrayim and Menashsheh, even as Re'uven and Shim`on, will be mine.

Gen 48:6

Gen 48:6Your issue, who you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

Gen 48:7

Gen 48:7As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Kana`an in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Efrat, and I buried her there in the way to Efrat (the same is Beit-Lechem)."

Gen 48:8

Gen 48:8Yisra'el saw Yosef's sons, and said, "Who are these?"

Gen 48:9

Gen 48:9Yosef said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." He said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them."

Gen 48:10

Gen 48:10Now the eyes of Yisra'el were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

Gen 48:11

Gen 48:11Yisra'el said to Yosef, "I didn't think I would see your face, and, behold, God has let me see your seed also."

Gen 48:12

Gen 48:12Yosef brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the eretz.

Gen 48:13

Gen 48:13Yosef took them both, Efrayim in his right hand toward Yisra'el's left hand, and Menashsheh in his left hand toward Yisra'el's right hand, and brought them near to him.

Gen 48:14

Gen 48:14Yisra'el stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Efrayim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Menashsheh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Menashsheh was the firstborn.

Gen 48:15

Gen 48:15He blessed Yosef, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Avraham and Yitzchak did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

Gen 48:16

Gen 48:16the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Avraham and Yitzchak. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the eretz."

Gen 48:17

Gen 48:17When Yosef saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Efrayim, it displeased him. He held up his father's hand, to remove it from Efrayim's head to Menashsheh's head.

Gen 48:18

Gen 48:18Yosef said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."

Gen 48:19

Gen 48:19His 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 seed will become a multitude of nations."

Gen 48:20

Gen 48:20He blessed them that day, saying, "In you will Yisra'el bless, saying, 'God make you as Efrayim and as Menashsheh'" He set Efrayim before Menashsheh.

Gen 48:21

Gen 48:21Yisra'el said to Yosef, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

Gen 48:22

Gen 48:22Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amori with my sword and with my bow."
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