Genesis 50:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.

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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 even I 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 descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”

Genesis 49:12

his eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

Genesis 50:22

So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

1 Chronicles 7:14

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

Job 42:16

And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, 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 sons is their fathers.

Numbers 32:33

And Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.

Numbers 32:39

And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

Joshua 17:1

Then allotment was made to the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the first-born of Joseph. To Machir the first-born of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war.