Septuaginta, Genesis, ed. Henry Barclay Swete, 48

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Ἐγένετο δὲ μετὰ τὰ ῥήματα ταῦτα
ἀπηηέλη τῷ Ἰωσὴφ ὅτι Ὁ πατήρ σου ἐνοχλεῖται· καὶ ἀναλαβὼν τοὺς δύο υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ, τὸν Μανσσὴ καὶ τὸν Ἐφράιμ, ἦλθεν πρὸς Ἰακώβ.

ἀπηγγέλη δὲ τῷ Ἰακὼβ λέγοντες Ἴδου ὁ υἱός σου Ἰωσὴφ ἔρχεται
πρὸς σέ· καὶ ἐνισχύσας Ἰσραὴλ ἐκάθισεν ἐπὶ τὴν κλίνην.

καὶ εἶπεν
¹ Ἰακὼβ τῷ Ἰωσήφ Ὤφθη μοι ὁ θεός μου ¶ ἐν Λοῦζα ἐν γῇ Χανάαν, καὶ ²³
εὐλόγησέν με

καὶ εἰπέν μοι Ἴδου ἐγώ σε αὐξάνω καὶ πληθυνῶ καὶ ⁴ ποιήσω σε εἰς συναγωγὰς ἐθνῶν, καὶ δώσω σοι τὴν γῆν ταύτην καὶ τῶ
σπέρματί σου μετὰ σὲ εἰς κατάσχεσιν αἰώνιον.

νῦν οὖν οἱ δύο υἱοί σου οἱ γενόμενοί σοι ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ πρὸ τοῦ με ἐλθεῖν εἰς Αἴγυπτον πρὸς σὲ ἐμοί εἰσιν, Ἐφράιμ καὶ Μανασσή, ὡς Ῥουβὴν καὶ Συμεὼν ἔσονταί
μοι·

τὰ δὲ ἔκγονα αἰ δ’ ἄν γεννήσῃς μετὰ ταῦτα ἔσονται ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι
τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτῶν, κληθήσονται ἐπὶ τοῖς ἐκείνων κλήροις.

ἐγὼ δὲ ἡνίκα ἠρχόμην ἐκ Μεσοποταμίας τῆς Συρίας, ἀπέθανεν Ῥαχὴλ ἡ μήτηρ σου ἐν γῇ Χανάαν, ἐγγίζοντός μου κατὰ τὸν ἱππόδρομον χαβραθὰ τῆς γῆς τοῦ ἐλθεῖν Ἐφράθα· καὶ κατώρυξα αὐτὴν ἐν τῇ ὁδῶ τοῦ ἱππο-
δρόμου· αὕτη ἐστὶν Βεθλέεμ.

ἰδὼν δὲ Ἰσραὴλ τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰωσήφ
εἶπεν τίνες σοι οὗτοι ;

εἶπεν δὲ Ἰωσὴφ τῷ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ Υἱοί μού εἰσιν οὓς ἔδωκέν μοι ὁ θεὸς ἐνταῦθα. καὶ εἶπεν Ἰακώβ προσάγαγέ
μοι αὐτοὺς ἵνα εὐλογήσω αὐτούς.

οἱ δὲ ὀφθαλμοὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἐβαρυώπησαν ἀπὸ τοῦ γήρους, καὶ οὐκ ἠδύνατο βλέπειν· καὶ ἤγγισεν αὐτοὺς
πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ ἐφίλησεν αὐτοὺς καὶ περιέλαβεν αὐτούς.

καὶ εἶπεν Ἰσραὴλ πρὸς Ἰωσήφ ἰδοὺ τοῦ προσώπου σου οὐκ ἐστερήθην, καὶ ἰδοὺ
ἔδειξέν μοι ὁ θεὸς καὶ τὸ σπέρμα σου,

καὶ ἐξήγαγεν Ἰωσὴφ ἀπὸ τῶν γονάτων αὐτοῦ, καὶ προσεκύνησαν αὐτῷ ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ἐπὶ
τῆς γῆς.

λαβὼν δὲ Ἰωσὴφ τοὺς δύο υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ, τόν τε Ἐφράιμ ἐν τῇ δεξιᾷ, ἐξ ἀριστερῶν δὲ Ἰσραήλ, τὸν δὲ Μανασσὴ ἐξ ἀριστερῶν, ἐκ
δεξιῶν δὲ Ἰσραήλ, ἤγγιαεν αὐτοὺς αὐτῷ.

ἐκτείνας δὲ Ἰσραὴλ τὴν χεῖρα τὴν δεξιὰν ἐπέβαλεν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν Ἐφράιμ, οὗτος δὲ ἦν ὁ νεωτερος, καὶ τὴν ἀριστερὰν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν Μανασσή, ἐναλλὰξ τὰς
χεῖρας.

καὶ ηὐλόγησεν αὐτοὺς καὶ εἶπεν Ὁ θεὸς ᾧ εὐηρέστησαν οἱ πατέρες μου ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαάκ, ὁ κύριος ὁ τρέφων με
ἐκ νεότητος ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης,

ὁ ἄγγελος ὁ ῥυόμενός με ἐκ πάντων τῶν κακῶν, εὐλογήσαι τὰ παιδία ταῦτα· καὶ ἐπικληθήσεται τὸ ⁵⁶ ὄνομά μου ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ τὸ ὄνομα τῶν πατέρων μου Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Ισαάκ, καὶ πληθυνθείησαν εἰς πλῆθος πολὺ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

ἰδὼν δὲ
Ἰωσὴφ ὅτι ἐπέβαλεν ὁ πατὴρ τὴν δεξιὰν αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν Ἐφράιμ, βαρὺ αὐτῷ κατεφάνη· καὶ ἀντελάβετο ’lωσὴφ τῆς χειρὸς τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ ἀφελεῖν αὐτὴν ἀπὸ τῆς κεφαλῆς Ἐφράιμ ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν Μανασσή.

εἶπεν δὲ Ἰωσὴφ τῷ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ Οὐχ οὕτως,
πάτερ· οὗτος γὰρ ὁ πρωτότοκος, ἐπίθες τὴν δεξιὰν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ.

καὶ οὐκ ἠθέλησεν, ἀλλὰ εἶπεν Οἶδα, τέκνον, οἷα· καὶ οὗτος
ἔσται εἰς λαόν, καὶ οὗτος ὑψωθήσεται· ἀλλὰ ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ ὁ νεώ. τερος μείζων αὐτοῦ ἔσται, καὶ τὸ σπέρμα αι'τοῦ ἔσται εἰς πλῆθος ἐθνῶν.

καὶ καὶ εὐλόγησεν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνη λέγων Ἐν ὑμῖν
εὐλογηθήσεται Ἰσραὴλ λέγοντες Ποιήσαι σε ὁ θεὸς ὡς ὡς Μανασσή· καὶ ἔθηκεν τὸν Ἐφράιμ ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ

εἶπεν δὲ Ἰσραὴλ τῷ Ἰωσήφ ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἀποθνήσκω, καὶ ἔσται ὁ θεὸς
⁷ μεθ’ ὑμῶν καὶ ἀποστρέψει ὑμᾶς εἰς τὴν γῆν

ἐγὼ δὲ δίδωμί σοι σίκιμα ἐξαίρετον ὑπὲρ τοὺς ἀδελφούς σου, ἣν
ἔλαβον ἐκ χειρὸς Ἀμορραίων ἐν μαχαίρᾳ μου καὶ τόξῳ.

Genesis. Septuaginta. ed. Henry Barclay Swete. Germany. 2015.

Current edition First1KGreek

Γένεσις (Greek) (Septuaginta. The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint. Volume 1: Genesis-IV Kings. Swete, Henry Barclay, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901.)

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Genesis Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 48 focus

It happened after these things, that one said to Joseph, Behold, your father is sick. He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

One told Jacob, and said, Behold, your son Joseph comes to you, and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.

Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

and said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.

Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt , are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.

Your issue, who you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem ).

Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, Who are these?

Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me here. He said, Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.

Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

Israel said to Joseph, I didn’t think I would see your face, and, behold, God has let me see your seed also.

Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel ’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel ’s right hand, and brought them near to him.

Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

He blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.

His father refused, and said, I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations.

He blessed them that day, saying, In you will Israel bless, saying, God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

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Septuaginta Genesis 48

ed. Henry Barclay Swete

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