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Numbers 26:35-37
These are the sons of Ephraim by their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.These are the families of the sons of Ephraim by those who were numbered of them, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph by their families.
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Deuteronomy 33:17
As the firstborn of his ox, majesty is his, And his horns are the horns of the wild ox; With them he will gore 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.”
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Genesis 39:1-23
Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.And the Lord was with Joseph, so he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.Now his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made all that he did prosper in his hand.So Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal servant; and he made him overseer over his house, and put him in charge of all that he owned.It came about that from the time he made him overseer in his house and over all that he owned, the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house on account of Joseph; so the Lord’s blessing was upon all that he owned, in the house and in the field.So he left Joseph in charge of everything that he owned; and with him there he did not concern himself with anything except the food which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.And it came about after these events that his master’s wife had her eyes on Joseph, and she said,“ Sleep with me.”But he refused and said to his master’s wife,“ Look, with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in the house, and he has put me in charge of all that he owns.There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil, and sin against God?”Though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he did not listen to her to lie beside her or be with her.Now it happened one day that he went into the house to do his work, and none of the people of the household was there inside.So she grabbed him by his garment, saying,“ Sleep with me!” But he left his garment in her hand and fled, and went outside.When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside,she called to the men of her household and said to them,“ See, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to make fun of us; he came in to me to sleep with me, and I screamed.When he heard that I raised my voice and screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled and went outside.”So she left his garment beside her until his master came home.Then she spoke to him with these words:“ The Hebrew slave, whom you brought to us, came in to me to make fun of me;but when I raised my voice and screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled outside.”Now when his master heard the words of his wife which she spoke to him, saying,“ This is what your slave did to me,” his anger burned.So Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined; and he was there in the prison.But the Lord was with Joseph and extended kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the warden of the prison.And the warden of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison; so that whatever was done there, he was responsible for it.The warden of the prison did not supervise anything under Joseph’s authority, because the Lord was with him; and, the Lord made whatever he did prosper.
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Genesis 37:1-36
Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had lived as a stranger, in the land of Canaan.These are the records of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, when he was seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers, while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a multicolored tunic.And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and so they hated him and could not speak to him on friendly terms.Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.He said to them,“ Please listen to this dream which I have had;for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf stood up and also remained standing; and behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf.”Then his brothers said to him,“ Are you actually going to reign over us? Or are you really going to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.Then he had yet another dream, and informed his brothers of it, and said,“ Behold, I have had yet another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”He also told it to his father as well as to his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him,“ What is this dream that you have had? Am I and your mother and your brothers actually going to come to bow down to the ground before you?”And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.Then his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock in Shechem.And Israel said to Joseph,“ Are your brothers not pasturing the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” And he said to him,“ I will go.”Then he said to him,“ Go now and see about the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the flock, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.A man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field; and the man asked him,“ What are you looking for?”He said,“ I am looking for my brothers; please tell me where they are pasturing the flock.”Then the man said,“ They have moved from here; for I heard them say,‘ Let’s go to Dothan.’ ” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.When they saw him from a distance, and before he came closer to them, they plotted against him to put him to death.They said to one another,“ Here comes this dreamer!Now then, come and let’s kill him, and throw him into one of the pits; and we will say,‘ A vicious animal devoured him.’ Then we will see what will become of his dreams!”But Reuben heard this and rescued him out of their hands by saying,“ Let’s not take his life.”Then Reuben said to them,“ Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him”— so that later he might rescue him out of their hands, to return him to his father.So it came about, when Joseph reached his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the multicolored tunic that was on him;and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, without any water in it.Then they sat down to eat a meal. But as they raised their eyes and looked, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels carrying labdanum resin, balsam, and myrrh, on their way to bring them down to Egypt.And Judah said to his brothers,“ What profit is it for us to kill our brother and cover up his blood?Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him.Then some Midianite traders passed by, so they pulled him out and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. So they brought Joseph into Egypt.Now Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; so he tore his garments.He returned to his brothers and said,“ The boy is not there; as for me, where am I to go?”So they took Joseph’s tunic, and slaughtered a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood;and they sent the multicolored tunic and brought it to their father and said,“ We found this; please examine it to see whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”Then he examined it and said,“ It is my son’s tunic. A vicious animal has devoured him; Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”So Jacob tore his clothes, and put on a sackcloth undergarment over his waist, and mourned for his son many days.Then all his sons and all his daughters got up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said,“ Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.Meanwhile, the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh’s officer, the captain of the bodyguard.
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Genesis 49:22-26
“ Joseph is a fruitful branch, A fruitful branch by a spring; Its branches hang over a wall.The archers provoked him, And shot at him and were hostile toward him;But his bow remained firm, And his arms were agile, From the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob( From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),From the God of your father who helps you, And by the Almighty who blesses you With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that lies beneath, Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.The blessings of your father Have surpassed the blessings of my ancestors Up to the furthest boundary of the everlasting hills; May they be on the head of Joseph, And on the top of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers.
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Genesis 46:20
Now to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
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Genesis 30:24
And she named him Joseph, saying,“ May the Lord give me another son.”
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Genesis 48:1-22
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.When it was told to Jacob,“ Behold, your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel collected his strength and sat up in the bed.Then Jacob said to Joseph,“ God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,and He said to me,‘ Behold, I will make you fruitful and numerous, and I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.But your children that you have fathered after them shall be yours; they shall be called by the names of their brothers in their inheritance.Now as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died, to my sorrow, in the land of Canaan on the journey, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath. I buried her there on the way to Ephrath( that is, Bethlehem).”When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he said,“ Who are these?”And Joseph said to his father,“ They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” So he said,“ Bring them to me, please, so that I may bless them.”Now the eyes of Israel were so dim from age that he could not see. And Joseph brought them close to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.And Israel said to Joseph,“ I never expected to see your face, and behold, God has let me see your children as well!”Then Joseph took them from his knees, and bowed with his face to the ground.And Joseph took them both, Ephraim with his right hand toward Israel’s left, and Manasseh with his left hand toward Israel’s right, and brought them close to him.But Israel reached out his right hand and placed it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, crossing his hands, although Manasseh was the firstborn.And he blessed Joseph, and said,“ The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, The God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,The angel who has redeemed me from all evil, Bless the boys; And may my name live on in them, And the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; And may they grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”When Joseph saw that his father placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, it displeased him; and he grasped his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.And Joseph said to his father,“ Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn. Place your right hand on his head.”But his father refused and said,“ I know, my son, I know; he also will become a people and he also will be great. However, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”So he blessed them that day, saying,“ By you Israel will pronounce blessing, saying,‘ May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh!’ ” And so he put Ephraim before Manasseh.Then Israel said to Joseph,“ Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you, and bring you back to the land of your fathers.And I give you one portion more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow.”
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Numbers 2:18-19
“ On the west side shall be the flag of the camp of Ephraim by their armies; and the leader of the sons of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud,and his army, their numbered men: 40,500.
