Genesis 48:16-18
1599 Geneva Bible
16 The [a]Angel, which hath delivered me from all evil, bless the children, and let my [b]name be named upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, that they may grow as fish into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
17 But when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it [c]displeased him: and he stayed his father’s hand to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the eldest: put thy right hand upon his head.
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- Genesis 48:16 This Angel must be understood of Christ, as Gen. 31:13 and 32:1.
- Genesis 48:16 Let them be taken as my children.
- Genesis 48:17 Joseph faileth in binding God’s grace to the order of nature.
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