Genesis 48:20
Good News Translation
So he blessed them that day, saying, "The Israelites will use your names when they pronounce blessings. They will say, 'May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.'" In this way Jacob put Ephraim before Manasseh.

New Revised Standard Version
So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you Israel will invoke blessings, saying, ‘God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.

Contemporary English Version
Jacob told him that in the future the people of Israel would ask God's blessings on one another by saying, "I pray for God to bless you as much as he blessed Ephraim and Manasseh." Jacob put Ephraim's name first to show that he would be greater than Manasseh.

New American Bible
So he blessed them that day and said, “By you shall the people of Israel pronounce blessings, saying, ‘God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’ ” Thus he placed Ephraim before Manasseh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he blessed them at that time, saying: In thee shall Israel be blessed, and it shall be said: God do to thee as to Ephraim, and as to Manasses. And he set Ephraim before Manasses.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he blessed them at that time, saying: In thee shall Israel be blessed, and it shall be said: God do to thee as to Ephraim, and as to Manasses. And he set Ephraim before Manasses.

Israel bless.

Genesis 24:60 Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands; and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 28:3 And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase and multiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people.

Ruth 4:11,12 Then all the people that were in the gate, and the ancients, answered: We are witnesses: The Lord make this woman who cometh into thy house, like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the house of Israel: that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous name in Bethlehem: . . .

and he set.

Numbers 2:18-21 On the west side shall be the camp of the sons of Ephraim, whose prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud. . . .

Numbers 7:48,54 The seventh day the prince of the sons of Ephraim, Elisama the son of Ammiud, . . .

Numbers 10:22,23 The sons of Ephraim also moved their camp by their troops, in whose army the prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud. . . .

Numbers 13:8,11,16 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osee the son of Nun. . . .

Context
Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh
19But he refusing, said: I know, my son, I know: and this also shall become a people, and shall be multiplied; but his younger brother shall be greater than he; and his seed shall grow into nations. 20And he blessed them at that time, saying: In thee shall Israel be blessed, and it shall be said: God do to thee as to Ephraim, and as to Manasses. And he set Ephraim before Manasses.21And he said to Joseph, his son: Behold I die, and God will be with you, and will bring you back into the land of your fathers.…
Cross References
Hebrews 11:21
By faith Jacob, dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and adored the top of his rod.

Genesis 48:21
And he said to Joseph, his son: Behold I die, and God will be with you, and will bring you back into the land of your fathers.

Genesis 48:19
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