These, are the families of the sons of Ephraim, as to them who were numbered of them,—thirty-two thousand, and five hundred, These, are the sons of Joseph by their families.
His firstborn ox, be an honour to him. And the horns of a buffalo, be his horns, With them, let him thrust, peoples, All at once, to the ends of the earth,—Yea, with these, the myriads of Ephraim, And, with those, the thousands of Manasseh.
Now, therefore thy two sons who were born to thee in the land of Egypt, before I came in unto thee in Egypt, are Ephraim and Manasseh, like Reuben and Simeon, shall be mine.
Of the sons of Joseph—Of the sons of Ephraim, in their pedigrees—by their families by their ancestral houses,—in the counting of names, from twenty years old, and upwards, every one able to go forth to war;
Of the sons of Manasseh, in their pedigrees—by their families by their ancestral houses,—in the counting of names from twenty years old and upwards, every one able to go forth to war;
And his father refused, and said—I know—my son, I know! He also, shall become a people, and he also, shall become great,—but nevertheless, his younger brother, shall become greater than he, and his seed, shall become a filling up of the nations.