And his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall be a people, and he shall become great. But his younger brother shall become greater than he, and his seed shall become the fullness of the nations.
And now your two sons, those born to you in the land of Egypt before my coming to you in Egypt, are mine, Ephraim and Manasseh, like Reuben and Simeon, even they shall be mine.
Of the sons of Joseph, of the sons of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ house, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, everyone able to go out to war:
Of the sons of Manasseh, their generations, by their families by their fathers’ house, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, everyone able to go out to war:
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim by their numbered ones, thirtytwo thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.
His glory is as the first-born of his ox, and the horns of the wild ox are his horns; with them he shall butt the peoples together to the ends of the earth. And they are the myriads of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.