Genesis 48:21

Ephraim's Greater Blessing

²⁰ That day he blessed them. He said: Because of you, Israel will speak this blessing: 'May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh!' In this way Israel put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh. ²¹ Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you, and bring you back to the land of your fathers. ²² I am giving you one more mountain ridge than your brothers. I took it from the Amorites with my own sword and bow.

Land of Your Fathers

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Canaan

Ephraim

Israel

Joseph

Manasseh

Genesis 46:4

I will go to Egypt with you. I will make sure you come back again. Joseph will close your eyes when you die.

Genesis 50:24

Before Joseph died, he told his brothers: I will not live much longer. God will take care of you. He will lead you out of Egypt to the land he promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Genesis 26:3

You will live there as a foreigner. I will be with you and bless you. I will keep my promise to your father Abraham by giving this land to you and your descendants.

Genesis 28:15

Remember, I am with you. I will watch over you wherever you go. I will also bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I do what I have promised you.

Genesis 12:5

He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran. They set out for the land of Canaan and soon arrived there.

Genesis 15:14

I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve! Afterward they will come out with great possessions.

Genesis 37:1

Jacob continued to live in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived.

Deuteronomy 1:1-46

These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel. He was on this side of the Jordan in the desert wilderness, in the plain near the Red Sea (Suph), between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

Deuteronomy 31:8

Jehovah is the one who goes ahead of you. He will be with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be downhearted.

Joshua 1:5

No man will be able to resist you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

Joshua 1:9

Have I commanded you? Be strong and of a good courage. Do not be afraid, neither be dismayed; for Jehovah your God is with you wherever you go.

Joshua 3:7

Jehovah said to Joshua: This day will I begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel. Now they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

Joshua 23:14

It is time for me to die. Every one of you knows in his heart and very being that Jehovah your God has given you all the good things he promised. Every promise he made has been kept; not one has failed.

Joshua 24:1-33

Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem. He called the elders, the leaders, the judges, and the officers of Israel, and they came to the presence of God.

1 Kings 2:2-4

It is my time to die. I go the way of all people of the earth. Be strong and be a man.

Psalm 18:46

Jehovah lives! Blessed is my rock! Praise the God of my salvation.

Psalm 146:3-4

Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.

Zechariah 1:5-6

Your fathers, where are they?' The prophets, do they live forever?

Luke 2:29

Let your servant depart according to your word in peace.

Acts 13:36

After David served his own generation by doing the will of God he died and was buried with his fathers. His body decayed.

2 Timothy 4:6

I am already being offered (poured out as an offering), and the time of my departure has come.

Hebrews 7:3

He was without father or mother or genealogy, and neither had beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he continues as a priest forever.

Hebrews 7:8

In this instance mortal men receive tithes, in the other by the one of whom it is testified that he lives.

Hebrews 7:23-25

There have been many priests. This is because they have been prevented from continuing by death.

2 Peter 1:14

I know that putting off my earthly dwelling is imminent, even as our Lord Jesus Christ indicated to me.