Genesis 48:18-20

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¹⁸ Joseph said to his father, “·You are doing it wrong, Father, since Manasseh [^LNo, my Father, for this] is the firstborn son. Put your right hand on his head.”

¹⁹ But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. Manasseh will be great and ·have many descendants [^Lbecome great]. But his younger brother will be greater, and his ·descendants [^Lseed] will ·be enough to make a nation [^Lbecome the fullness of nations; ^CEphraim would become the dominant tribe in northern Israel].”

²⁰ So ·Israel [^Lhe] blessed them that day and said,

In this way he ·made Ephraim greater than [^Lset Ephraim before] Manasseh.