15 (A)Also he blesseth Joseph, and said, The God, before whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which hath fed me all my life long, unto this day, bless thee.

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.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 48:16 This Angel must be understood of Christ, as Gen. 31:13 and 32:1.
  2. Genesis 48:16 Let them be taken as my children.
  3. Genesis 48:17 Joseph faileth in binding God’s grace to the order of nature.

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