15 He blessed Joseph, and said,

(A)The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
(B)The God who has been my shepherd [a]all my life to this day,
16 (C)The angel who has redeemed me from all evil,
(D)Bless the lads;
And may my name [b]live on in them,
And the [c]names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
And (E)may they grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”

17 When Joseph saw that his father (F)laid his right hand on Ephraim’s head, it displeased him; and he grasped his father’s hand to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 48:15 Lit from the continuance of me
  2. Genesis 48:16 Lit be called
  3. Genesis 48:16 Lit name