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But Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head now he was the younger and his left hand on Manasseh's head; guiding his hands intelligently, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornHandsLaying On Of HandsFirstborn SonsHands On HeadsLeft HandsLaying On Hands To HealBlessings For The Right Hand

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

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming PeopleAngels Looking After PeopleAngels Providing ProtectionMay God Bless!

And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

Verse ConceptsHands On HeadsBlessings For The Right HandTroubling Individuals

And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn: put thy right hand on his head.

Verse ConceptsFirstborn SonsHands On HeadsLaying On Hands To HealDissentBlessings For The Right Hand

But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest ChildPeople With General KnowledgeRules About Young People

And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

Verse ConceptsLike Good PeoplePeople Who Blessed Others

Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

Verse ConceptsFighting Enemies

And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

Verse ConceptsPredicting The FutureOthers SummoningTogetherness


“Reuben, you are my firstborn;
My might, the beginning of my strength and vigor,
Preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power [that should have been your birthright].

Verse ConceptsFirstborn SonsStrong IndividualsPowerful IndividualsFamily StrengthPowerExcellencemanhoodstrenghdignity

But you're as undisciplined as a roaring river, so eventually you won't succeed, because you got in your father's bed, defiled it, and then approached my couch."

Verse ConceptsFicklenessRash People

Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

Verse ConceptsWeapons

O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

Verse ConceptsIrritationParticipation, In SinAnger Of Man, CauseSelf WillEvil AssociationsObstinate IndividualsReady To KillSports

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

Verse ConceptsCursing The UngodlyFierce MenAngry People

Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.

Verse ConceptsBowingCommendationSalutationsOvercoming EnemiesShowing Forth His Praiseserenity

Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

Verse ConceptsHuntingLions, Figurative Use OfLionsYoung AnimalVigourCrouchingLike Creatures


“The scepter [of royalty] shall not depart from Judah,
Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
Until Shiloh [the Messiah, the Peaceful One] comes,
And to Him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalSceptreStaffUnity, God's Goal OfProphecies Concerning ChristMessianic PropheciesGathered By God

Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

Verse ConceptsColtsJoining ThingsWashing ClothesClean ClothesBinding As Animals

Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.

Verse ConceptsSeafaringMediterranean SeaShipsSeashoresLiving In The Land

And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant.

Verse ConceptsSubjectionThose At EaseForced LabourGood Qualities

Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

Verse ConceptsBitingSerpentsSnakesHeelsPeople TumblingThings Like SnakesSnakebitesFalling Backwards

"A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.

Verse ConceptsNations Attacking IsraelOvercoming

The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and an archer lurks for him.

Verse ConceptsNations Attacking IsraelBitternessharassment

By the God of thy father who helpeth thee, And the Mighty One who blesseth thee, Blessings of the heavens from above, Blessings of the deep lying under, Blessings of breasts and womb; --

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To IsraelWombGod Will BlessGod HelpsBlessings From GodThe Environmentbreasts

The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

Verse ConceptsHeadsHillsPrincesEternal WorldBlessed By God

Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

Verse ConceptsWolvesIn The MorningDividing PlunderFierce Men

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.

Verse ConceptsTwelve TribesPeople Who Blessed Othersisrael

In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

Verse ConceptsThe Cave Of Machpelah

The purchase of the field, and of the cave that is in it, was from the children of Heth.

Verse ConceptsPurchasing

And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

Verse ConceptsBedsDeath Of The Saints, Examples OfLast WordsGathered To One's People

And Joseph falleth on his father's face, and weepeth over him, and kisseth him;

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingPainSorrowMourning The Death Of Others

And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.

Verse ConceptsThe DeaddoctorsArts And Crafts, Types ofPreparation For BurialDrugs

And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

Verse ConceptsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenThe Cave Of Machpelah

So Pharaoh said, “Go and bury your father in keeping with your oath.”

So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of Egypt,

Verse ConceptsCeremoniesOld Age, Attitudes To

And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

Verse ConceptsPeople Abandoning People

And there went with him also Chariots and horsemen: so that they were an exceeding great company.

Verse ConceptsChariotsDealing With Many People

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which [was] beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful wailing. And he made a mourning ceremony for his father seven days.

Verse ConceptsFuneralsBereavement, Experience OfLamentingSevenWeeksSeven DaysBeyond JordanMourning The Death Of Others

And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

Verse ConceptsMourningMourning DeathBeyond Jordan

For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

Verse ConceptsempiresCavesTombsCaves For BuryingThe Cave Of MachpelahCaves Used As Graves

And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt.

Verse ConceptsReturning to their land

And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

Verse ConceptsGrudgesResentment, Against PeopleResponseRepaying Evil For EvilNamed People Angry With Others

So they sent in charge unto Joseph saying, - Thy father, gave command before he died saying:

Verse ConceptsBefore Death

So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

Verse ConceptsAsking for forgivenessAskingForgive One AnotherWronging Other PeopleGod's ForgivenessLove And Forgivenessforgivingdisobedience

Joseph wept when they talked to him. So Joseph's brothers went to visit him, fell prostrate in front of him, and declared, "Look! We're your servants."

Verse ConceptsBowing Before Joseph

So don't be afraid! I'll take care of you and your little ones." So Joseph kept on comforting them, speaking to the needs of their hearts.

Verse ConceptsKindnessKind WordsPeople Providingprovidingreassurance

And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

Verse ConceptsAge At DeathLiving In The Land

And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the sons also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on Joseph's knees.

Verse ConceptsKneesThird Person

Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

Verse ConceptsAssurance, basis ofProperty, LandThe Promised LandGod VisitingNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenDeath Approaching

And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

Verse ConceptsBonesFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsLove, And The WorldExhumationsGod VisitingPeople Bound By Oaths

Now, these, are the names of the Sons of Israel, who came into Egypt, with Jacob, did each man and his household come in: -

And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

Verse ConceptsSeventySeventies

and in time Joseph and his brothers and all that generation died.

Verse ConceptsGenerations

And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalFilling PlacesBirth ControlPeople Multiplyingfruitfulness

A new king, who had not known Joseph, came to power in Egypt.

Verse ConceptsPast, TheNot Knowing People

He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are too many and too mighty for us [they greatly outnumber us].

Verse ConceptsMany In Israel

Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

Verse ConceptsOppression, Nature OfPersecution, Forms OfShrewdnessFalse WisdomExodusPrinciples Of WarNetworkingImmigrants

And they appointed commanders of forced labor over them in order to oppress them with their {forced labor}, and they built storage cities for Pharaoh--Pithom and Rameses.

Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfOppression, Nature OfStoringSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Nature OfTaskmastersStores Of FoodForced Labour

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out, so that they were in dread of the sons of Israel.

Verse ConceptsPeople MultiplyingFearing Other PeopleAfflictions Terminating In Goodoppressionpressure

And the Egyptians held the children of Israel in bondage without mercy,

Verse ConceptsEmployers, Bad Examples

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

Verse ConceptsBricksOppression, Examples OfTroubling Groups Of PeopleBitternessSuccess And Hard Work

And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

Verse ConceptsInfanticide

And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

Verse ConceptsInfantsSuffering, Nature OfInfanticideKept Alive By MenDeath Of All MalesBirthKilling Israelites

And the king of Egypt sent for the women, and said to them, Why have you done this, and let the male children go on living?

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenKings SummoningWhy Do You Do This?

And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.

Verse ConceptsVigourNot Like PeopleBirthWomen WorkingHaving A Babychildbearing

And the blessing of God was on these women: and the people were increased in number and became very strong.

Verse ConceptsGod Doing GoodPeople Multiplying

And because the midwives feared God [with profound reverence], He established families and households for them.

Verse ConceptsReverence, And BlessingIndividuals Fearing God

and Pharaoh layeth a charge on all his people, saying, 'Every son who is born -- into the River ye do cast him, and every daughter ye do keep alive.'

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofCommands, in OTKept Alive By MenDeath Of All MalesKilling IsraelitesThe King's Orders

And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

Verse ConceptsTwo To Four MonthsPeople Hiding PeopleWomen's Beauty

And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveCoatsBoatsBitumen and tarLove, And The WorldMineralsPapyrusPlantsUnable To Do Other ThingsRivers

Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.

Verse ConceptsStanding At A DistanceLooking Intently At PeopleNamed Sisters

And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

Verse ConceptsBathing, For RefreshmentRiver BanksPeople Sending People

And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

Verse ConceptsCompassion, Examples OfBabiesThe Act Of OpeningOpening ContainersOthers MourningPeople Showing Mercyempathy

And his sister saith unto the daughter of Pharaoh, 'Do I go? when I have called for thee a suckling woman of the Hebrews, then she doth suckle the lad for thee;'

Verse ConceptsNursesNamed Sisters

And when the child was grown, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water.

Verse ConceptsAdoption, nature ofMoses, Life OfSonsGrowing UpAdoptionBringing People Out Of Other PlacesPeople With Apt Names

And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

Verse ConceptsVisitingGrowing UpForced Labourempathymanhood

And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

Verse ConceptsSandInadequate BurialsUnseenLooking And SeeingSand And Gravel

And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

Verse ConceptsFighting One AnotherTwo Other Men

And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? are you going to put me to death as you did the Egyptian? And Moses was in fear, and said, It is clear that the thing has come to light.

Verse ConceptsRulersAttempting To Kill MeThings Revealed

Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

Verse ConceptsDanger, PhysicalFugitivesSittingPeople Sitting DownAttempting To Kill Specific People

Meanwhile, the seven daughters of a certain Midianite priest would come to draw water in order to fill water troughs for their father's sheep.

Verse ConceptsGirlsSeven ChildrenFathers And Daughters

When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.

Verse Conceptsdefence, humanGroups Sent AwayStock Keeping

And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?

Verse ConceptsWork Soon DoneFathers And Daughters

And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Saving OthersStock Keeping

And he said to his daughters, Where is he? why have you let the man go? make him come in and give him a meal.

Verse ConceptsHospitality, Examples OfInvitationsHospitalityTravellersWhere Are People?

And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

Verse ConceptsSojourningReckoned As ForeignersPeople With Apt Names

And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Verse ConceptsGod, Glory OfAngel of the LordMetaphysicsFireTheophanyGod's Glory RevealedGod, Presence OfGod AppearingNot Destroyed