Genesis 49:22

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Summary

Genesis 49:22

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

A fruitful

General references

Numbers 1:32

Bible References

A fruitful

Then God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and opened her womb.

He named the second Ephraim, “For,” he said, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.

Now it came about after these things that Joseph was told, “Behold, your father is sick.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

“As the firstborn of his ox, majesty is his,
And his horns are the horns of the wild ox;
With them he will push the peoples,
All at once, to the ends of the earth.
And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
And those are the thousands of Manasseh.”

Then the sons of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me only one lot and one portion for an inheritance, since I am a numerous people whom the Lord has thus far blessed?”

How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the

path of sinners,

Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!

A Song of Ascents.

How blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,

Who walks in His ways.

‘And it had

strong branches fit for scepters of rulers,

And its height was raised above the clouds
So that it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.

General references

Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons of Ephraim, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,