Wherefore have knees been before me? And what `are' breasts, that I suck?
And she saith, `Lo, my handmaid Bilhah, go in unto her, and she doth bear on my knees, and I am built up, even I, from her;'
and Joseph looketh on Ephraim's sons of the third `generation'; sons also of Machir, son of Manasseh, have been born on the knees of Joseph.
Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!
For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept -- then there is rest to me,
For thus said Jehovah: `Lo, I am stretching out to her peace as a river, And as an overflowing stream the honour of nations, And ye have sucked, on the side ye are carried, And on the knees ye are dandled.