“ Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.

“约瑟是多结果子的树枝，是泉旁多结果的枝子；他的枝条探出墙外。

约瑟是多结果子的树枝，是泉旁多结果的枝子；他的枝条伸出墙外。

约瑟是多结果子的树枝，是泉旁多结果的枝子；他的枝条伸出墙外。

“约瑟是多结果子的枝条，长在水泉旁，他的枝条探出墙外。

约瑟是一根结果子的树枝，是一根泉旁结果子的树枝，他的枝条蔓延出墙外。

约瑟是多结果实的树枝，是泉旁多结果实的树枝；他的枝条蔓越出墙。

約瑟是多結果子的樹枝，是泉旁多結果的枝子；他的枝條探出牆外。

約瑟是多結果子的樹枝，是泉旁多結果的枝子；他的枝條伸出牆外。

約瑟是多結果子的樹枝，是泉旁多結果的枝子；他的枝條伸出牆外。

「約瑟是多結果子的枝條，長在水泉旁，他的枝條探出牆外。

約瑟是一根結果子的樹枝，是一根泉旁結果子的樹枝，他的枝條蔓延出牆外。

約瑟是母牛的崽子，在水泉旁的母牛崽子；他的女兒踏步在書珥曠野。

約瑟是多結果實的樹枝，是泉旁多結果實的樹枝；他的枝條蔓越出牆。

約瑟如結實之樹枝、在於泉旁、其條蔓延踰垣、

約瑟如蔥蘢之樹、植於泉旁、其枝蔓延踰垣。

約瑟如茂枝、茂枝栽於泉旁、枝條蔓延、踰於墻垣、

“ Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall.

“ Joseph is a vine that grows a lot of fruit. It grows close by a spring. Its branches climb over a wall.

“ Joseph is the foal of a wild donkey, the foal of a wild donkey at a spring— one of the wild donkeys on the ridge.

Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine beside a spring; its branches climb over the wall.

“ Joseph is a fruitful branch, A fruitful branch by a spring; Its branches hang over a wall.

“ Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a well; His branches run over the wall.

Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a fountain; His branches run over the wall.

Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine beside a spring; its branches climb over the wall.

Joseph[ is] a fruitful bough,[ even] a fruitful bough by a well;[ whose] branches run over the wall:

Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches climb over the wall.

“ Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

The name of the second he called Ephraim,“ For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.

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

The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel.Then going from Bethel to Luz, it passes along to Ataroth, the territory of the Archites.Then it goes down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and it ends at the sea.The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.The territory of the people of Ephraim by their clans was as follows: the boundary of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon,and the boundary goes from there to the sea. On the north is Michmethath. Then on the east the boundary turns around toward Taanath-shiloh and passes along beyond it on the east to Janoah,then it goes down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, and touches Jericho, ending at the Jordan.From Tappuah the boundary goes westward to the brook Kanah and ends at the sea. Such is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Ephraim by their clans,together with the towns that were set apart for the people of Ephraim within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages.However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.

Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock.So the people of Gad and the people of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the congregation,“ Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,the land that the Lord struck down before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.”And they said,“ If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us across the Jordan.”But Moses said to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben,“ Shall your brothers go to the war while you sit here?Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land that the Lord has given them?Your fathers did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the Lord had given them.And the Lord’s anger was kindled on that day, and he swore, saying,‘ Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me,none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord.’And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone.And behold, you have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel!For if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.”Then they came near to him and said,“ We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones,but we will take up arms, ready to go before the people of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.We will not return to our homes until each of the people of Israel has gained his inheritance.For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east.”So Moses said to them,“ If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the Lord for the war,and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the Lord, until he has driven out his enemies from before himand the land is subdued before the Lord; then after that you shall return and be free of obligation to the Lord and to Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the Lord.But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what you have promised.”And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben said to Moses,“ Your servants will do as my lord commands.Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead,but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord orders.”So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel.And Moses said to them,“ If the people of Gad and the people of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle before the Lord, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession.However, if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben answered,“ What the Lord has said to your servants, we will do.We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”And Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.And the people of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.And the people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,Nebo, and Baal-meon( their names were changed), and Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built.And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he settled in it.And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

And of Joseph he said,“ Blessed by the Lord be his land, with the choicest gifts of heaven above, and of the deep that crouches beneath,with the choicest fruits of the sun and the rich yield of the months,with the finest produce of the ancient mountains and the abundance of the everlasting hills,with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwells in the bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph, on the pate of him who is prince among his brothers.A firstborn bull— he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”

But his father refused and said,“ I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”So he blessed them that day, saying,“ By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying,‘ God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.’” Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

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

Then the people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying,“ Why have you given me but one lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I am a numerous people, since all along the Lord has blessed me?”And Joshua said to them,“ If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”The people of Joseph said,“ The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh,“ You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only,

Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.She conceived and bore a son and said,“ God has taken away my reproach.”And she called his name Joseph, saying,“ May the Lord add to me another son!”

Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways!

Its strong stems became rulers’ scepters; it towered aloft among the thick boughs; it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.

After this, Joseph was told,“ Behold, your father is ill.” So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.