GEN 48:20 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) So Yisra’el blessed Efrayim and Manasseh that day saying,[ref]
⇔ “After this, my descendants will bless people by saying,
⇔ ‘May God make you like Efrayim and like Manasseh.’ ”
§ (Notice that he put Efrayim before Manasseh.)

Key: khaki:verbs, blue:Elohim.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Καὶ εὐλόγησεν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ, λέγων, ἐν ὑμῖν εὐλογηθήσεται Ἰσραὴλ, λέγοντες, ποιήσαι σε ὁ Θεὸς ὡς Ἐφραὶμ καὶ ὡς Μανασσῆ· καὶ ἔθηκε τὸν Ἐφραὶμ ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ Μανασσῆ.
(Kai eulogaʸsen autous en taʸ haʸmera ekeinaʸ, legōn, en humin eulogaʸthaʸsetai Israaʸl, legontes, poiaʸsai se ho Theos hōs Efraim kai hōs Manassaʸ; kai ethaʸke ton Efraim emprosthen tou Manassaʸ. )

BrTr And he blessed them in that day, saying, In you shall Israel be blessed, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and Manasse; and he set Ephraim before Manasse.

ULT And he blessed them on that day, saying,
⇔  “By you Israel will bless people, saying,
⇔  ‘May God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.’ ”
¶  So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

UST So Israel blessed Ephraim and Manasseh that day by saying to them,
⇔  “The people of Israel will use your names when they bless people and say,
⇔  ‘May God prosper you like he prospered Ephraim and Manasseh.’ ”
¶  In that way, Israel made Ephraim greater than Manasseh.

BSB So that day [Jacob] blessed them and said: “By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’ ” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

OEB So he blessed them that day and said, ‘The Israelites will invoke a blessing like your own, saying, “God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.” ’ So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

WEBBE He blessed them that day, saying, “Israel will bless in your name, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’ ” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET So he blessed them that day, saying,
⇔ “By you will Israel bless, saying,
⇔ ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’ ”
¶ So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

LSV and he blesses them in that day, saying, “By you does Israel bless, saying, God set you as Ephraim and as Manasseh”; and he sets Ephraim before Manasseh.

FBV So Israel blessed them that day and said: “In the future the people of Israel will use your names to give a blessing, saying, ‘May God bless you like he did Ephraim and Manasseh.’ ” In saying this he placed Ephraim before Manasseh.

T4T So he blessed them both on that day, saying, “The people in Israel will use your names when they bless people. They will say, ‘We pray that God will help you as he helped Ephraim and Manasseh.’ ” In that way, Jacob said that Ephraim would become more important than Manasseh.

LEB No LEB GEN book available

BBE So he gave them his blessing that day, saying, You will be the sign of blessing in Israel, for they will say, May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh; and he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

Moff No Moff GEN book available

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

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

DRA 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.

YLT and he blesseth them in that day, saying, 'By thee doth Israel bless, saying, God set thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh;' and he setteth Ephraim before Manasseh.

Drby And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, [fn]God make thee as Ephraim and Manasseh! And he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

48.20 Elohim

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

SLT And he will bless them in that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, Will God set thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he will set Ephraim before Manasseh.

Wbstr 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.

KJB-1769 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.
(And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee/you shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee/you as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. )

KJB-1611 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel blesse, saying, God make thee as Ephraim, and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps No Bshps GEN book available

Gnva So he blessed them that day, and sayde, In thee Israel shall blesse, and say, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh. and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
(So he blessed them that day, and said, In thee/you Israel shall bless, and say, God make thee/you as Ephraim and as Manasseh. and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. )

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ClVg Benedixitque eis in tempore illo, dicens: In te benedicetur Israël, atque dicetur: Faciat tibi Deus sicut Ephraim, et sicut Manasse. Constituitque Ephraim ante Manassen.
(Beneand_said to_them in/into/on at_the_time illo, saying: In you(sg) he_will_be_blessed Israel, and_yet he_will_sayur: Faciat to_you God like Ephraim, and like Manasse. And_he_established Ephraim before Manassen. )

RP-GNT No RP-GNT GEN book available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

וַ⁠יְבָ֨רֲכֵ֜⁠ם בַּ⁠יּ֣וֹם הַ⁠הוּא֮

and,blessed,them in_the=day (the)=that

Alternate translation: [That same day, Israel blessed both of them]

Note 1 topic: writing-quotations

לֵ⁠אמוֹר֒

to,saying

Alternate translation: [and said]

בְּ⁠ךָ֗ יְבָרֵ֤ךְ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙

in/on/at/with,you invoke_blessings Yisrael

Alternate translation: [The people of Israel will use your names when they bless someone] or [When the people of Israel say a blessing over someone, they will use your names]

יְשִֽׂמְ⁠ךָ֣ אֱלֹהִ֔ים

make,you ʼElohīm

Alternate translation: [May God bless you] or [We ask God to make you great]

כְּ⁠אֶפְרַ֖יִם וְ⁠כִ⁠מְנַשֶּׁ֑ה

like,Ephraim and,like,Manasseh

Alternate translation: [like he blessed Ephraim and Manasseh]

וַ⁠יָּ֥שֶׂם אֶת־אֶפְרַ֖יִם לִ⁠פְנֵ֥י מְנַשֶּֽׁה

and=he/it_assigned DOM ʼEfrayim to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before Mənashsheh

Alternate translation: [When he said that, he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh] or [In that way, he made Ephraim greater than Manasseh]

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