So that day Jacob blessed them and said: "By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: 'May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.'" So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
Cross References
Hebrews 11:21By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.
Genesis 48:21Then Israel said to Joseph, "Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.
Treasury of Scripture
And he blessed them that day, saying, In you shall Israel bless, saying, God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
Israel bless.
Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
Genesis 28:3
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
Ruth 4:11,12
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem: …
and he set.
Numbers 2:18-21
On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud…
Numbers 7:48,54
On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered: …
Numbers 10:22,23
And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud…
