Genesis 49:22 Cross References - Leeser

²² Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; the branches of which run over the wall.

²² And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. ²³ And she conceived, and bore a son; and she said, God hath taken away my reproach. ²⁴ And she called his name Joseph, saying, The Lord shall add to me another son.

⁵² And the name of the second he called Ephraim; For God said he hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

²⁷ And the sons of Joseph, who were born him in Egypt, were two souls; all the souls of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were seventy.

¹ And it came to pass after these things, that some one said to Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick; and he took his two sons with him, Menasseh and Ephraim.

⁵ And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt, shall be mine; Ephraim and Menasseh shall be unto me as Reuben and Simeon.

¹⁶ The angel who redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be called on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

¹⁹ And his father refused, and said, I know, my son, I know, he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. ²⁰ And he blessed them that day, saying, With thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and Menasseh: and so he set Ephraim before Menasseh.

¹ Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle; and they saw the land of Ya’zer, and the land of Gil’ad, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle. ² And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came, and said unto Moses, and unto Elazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, as followeth, ³ ‘Ataroth, and Dibon, and Ya’zer, and Nimrah, and Cheshbon, and El’aleh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Be’on, ⁴ The country which the Lord hath smitten before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and thy servants have cattle. ⁵ And they said, If we have found grace in thy eyes, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession: do not compel us to go over the Jordan. ⁶ And Moses said unto the children of Gad, and unto the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to the war, and will ye sit here? ⁷ And wherefore will you turn aside the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them? ⁸ Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea’ to see the land. ⁹ For they went up as far as the valley of Eshcol, and they saw the land, and then they turned aside the heart of the children of Israel, so that they would not go into the land which the Lord had given them. ¹⁰ And the anger of the Lord was kindled on that day, and he swore, saying, ¹¹ Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: ¹² Save Caleb the son of Yephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; for they have wholly followed the Lord. ¹³ And the anger of the Lord was thus kindled against Israel, and he made them wander about in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation was spent, that had done the evil in the eyes of the Lord. ¹⁴ And now, behold, ye are risen up in your father’s stead, a new race of sinful men, to augment yet more the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel. ¹⁵ For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet longer leave them in the wilderness; and ye will thus be destruction to all this people. ¹⁶ And they came near unto him, and said, Sheepfolds will we build for our cattle here, and cities for our little ones; ¹⁷ But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until that we have brought them unto their place; and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities, because of the inhabitants of the land. ¹⁸ We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have acquired for themselves every man his inheritance. ¹⁹ For we will not take possession with them on the other side of the Jordan, and farther on: when our inheritance hath come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward. ²⁰ And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will arm yourselves before the Lord for the war; ²¹ And every armed man of you will go over the Jordan before the Lord, until he have driven out his enemies from before him; ²² And when, only after the land hath been subdued before the Lord, ye will return, and ye be thus guiltless before the Lord, and before Israel: then shall this land be yours for a possession before the Lord. ²³ But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord; and ye shall experience the punishment of your sin which will overtake you. ²⁴ Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and folds for your flocks; and that which hath proceeded out of your mouth shall ye do. ²⁵ And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said unto Moses, as followeth, Thy servants will do as my Lord commandeth. ²⁶ Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall remain there in the cities of Gil’ad; ²⁷ But thy servants will pass over, every one that is armed for the army, before the Lord, to the war, as my Lord speaketh. ²⁸ And Moses commanded concerning them Elazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chiefs of the families of the tribes of the children of Israel; ²⁹ And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben do pass with you over the Jordan, every one that is armed for the war, before the Lord, and the land shall be subdued before you: then shall ye give to them the land of Gil’ad for a possession; ³⁰ But if they should not pass over armed with you, they shall take possessions among you in the land of Canaan. ³¹ And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, That which the Lord hath spoken concerning thy servants, even so will we do. ³² We will indeed pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, while ours remaineth the possession of our inheritance on this side of the Jordan. ³³ And Moses gave unto them, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Menasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sichon, the king of the Emorites, and the kingdom of ‘Og, the king of Bashan, the land, with its cities within the boundaries, the cities of the country round about. ³⁴ And the children of Gad built Dibon, and ‘Ataroth, and ‘Aro’er, ³⁵ And ‘Atroth-shophan, and Ya’zer, and Yogbehah. ³⁶ And Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for flocks, ³⁷ And the children of Reuben built Cheshbon, and El’aleh, and Kiryathayim, ³⁸ And Nebo, and Ba’al-me’on their names being changed, and Shibmah; and they gave the former names unto the cities which they built. ³⁹ And the children of Machir the son of Menasseh went to Gil’ad, and conquered it, and dispossessed the Emorites who were in it. ⁴⁰ And Moses gave Gil’ad unto Machir the son of Menasseh; and he dwelt therein. ⁴¹ And Yair the son of Menasseh went and conquered the small towns thereof, and called them Chavoth-yair. ⁴² And Nobach went and conquered Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobach, after his own name.

¹³ And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, through the precious gift of heaven, through the dew, and through the deep that coucheth beneath, ¹⁴ And through the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and through the precious things put forth by the moon, ¹⁵ And through the best things of the ancient mountains, and through the precious things of the everlasting hills, ¹⁶ And through the precious things of the earth and its fulness, and through the goodwill of him that dwelt in the thorn-bush: may this blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the head of him that was separated from his brothers. ¹⁷ His first-born steer is adorned with glory, and his horns are like the horns of reem; with them shall he push nations together to the ends of the earth: and they are the myriads of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Menasseh.

¹ And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from the Jordan by Jericho, unto the waters of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho by the mount Beth-el, ² And the boundary went out from Beth-el to Luz, and passed along unto the boundary of the Arkites to ‘Ataroth, ³ And went down westward to the boundary of the Yaphleti, unto the border of Beth-choron the lower, and to Gezer; and its terminations were toward the sea. ⁴ This did the children of Joseph, Menasseh and Ephraim, take as their inheritance. ⁵ And this was the boundary of the children of Ephraim according to their families; and the boundary of their inheritance on the east side was ‘Atroth-addar, up to Beth-choron the upper; ⁶ And the boundary went out toward the sea to Michmethath on the north; and the boundary fetched a compass eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east to Yanochah; ⁷ And it went down from Yanochah to ‘Ataroth, and to Na’arath, and touched on Jericho, and went out at the Jordan. ⁸ From Tappuach westward the border went out unto the brook Kanah; and its terminations were toward the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim after their families; ⁹ And in addition to this the cities which were separated for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Menasseh, all the cities with their villages. ¹⁰ And they drove not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt among the Ephraimites until this day, and became tributary servants.

¹⁴ And the children of Joseph spoke unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion as an inheritance, seeing I am a numerous people, to which extent the Lord hath hitherto blessed me? ¹⁵ And Joshua said unto them, If thou art a numerous people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down a space for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim, if the mountain of Ephraim be too narrow for thee. ¹⁶ And the children of Joseph said, The mountain will not be enough for us; and chariots of iron are belonging to all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley, to those who are at Beth-shean and its towns, and to those who are in the valley of Yizre’el. ¹⁷ And Joshua said unto the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and to Menasseh, as followeth, Thou art a numerous people, and hast great power; thou shalt not have one lot only;

¹ BOOK FIRST: Happy is the man who walketh not in the council of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners; ² But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who doth meditate in his law by day and night. ³ And he shall be like a tree planted by rivulets of water, that yieldeth its fruit in its season, and the leaf of which doth not wither; and all that he may do shall prosper.

¹ A song of the degrees. Happy is every one that feareth the Lord, that walketh in his ways.

³ Thy wife is then as a fruitful vine in the recesses of thy house: thy children, like olive-plants round about thy table.

¹¹ And she had strong branches fit for the sceptres of rulers, and her stature grew up high between the thick-branched trees, and she was seen through her height by means of the multitude of her tendrils.