Why did the knees prevent me? Or why the breasts that I should suck?
And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
And Joseph saw E´phra-im's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manas´seh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.