Genesis 50:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation; the children of Machir son of Manasseh were also born on Joseph’s knees.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children also of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph's knees.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph’s knees.

Common English Bible

²³ and saw Ephraim’s grandchildren. The children of Machir, Manasseh’s son, were also born on Joseph’s knees.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ After these things happened, he said to his brothers: "God will visit you after my death, and he will make you ascend from this land into the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Genesis 50:23 Cross References

Genesis 30:3

Then she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees and that I too may have children through her.”

Genesis 48:19

But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”

Genesis 49:12

his eyes are darker than wine and his teeth whiter than milk.

Genesis 50:22

So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father’s household, and Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

1 Chronicles 7:14

The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.

Job 42:16

After this Job lived one hundred and forty years and saw his children and his children’s children, four generations.

Psalm 128:6

May you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!

Proverbs 17:6

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their parents.

Numbers 32:33

Moses gave to them—to the Gadites and to the Reubenites and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph—the kingdom of King Sihon of the Amorites and the kingdom of King Og of Bashan, the land and its towns, with the territories of the surrounding towns.

Numbers 32:39

The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were there,

Joshua 17:1

Then allotment was made to the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a warrior.