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

“ Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the 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 second son he named Ephraim and said,“ It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

With the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family, which went to Egypt, were seventy in all.

“ Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

The allotment for Joseph began at the Jordan, east of the springs of Jericho, and went up from there through the desert into the hill country of Bethel.It went on from Bethel( that is, Luz), crossed over to the territory of the Arkites in Ataroth,descended westward to the territory of the Japhletites as far as the region of Lower Beth Horon and on to Gezer, ending at the Mediterranean Sea.So Manasseh and Ephraim, the descendants of Joseph, received their inheritance.This was the territory of Ephraim, according to its clans: The boundary of their inheritance went from Ataroth Addar in the east to Upper Beth Horonand continued to the Mediterranean Sea. From Mikmethath on the north it curved eastward to Taanath Shiloh, passing by it to Janoah on the east.Then it went down from Janoah to Ataroth and Naarah, touched Jericho and came out at the Jordan.From Tappuah the border went west to the Kanah Ravine and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the Ephraimites, according to its clans.It also included all the towns and their villages that were set aside for the Ephraimites within the inheritance of the Manassites.They did not dislodge the Canaanites living in Gezer; to this day the Canaanites live among the people of Ephraim but are required to do forced labor.

The Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were suitable for livestock.So they came to Moses and Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the community, and said,“ Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Beon—the land the Lord subdued before the people of Israel— are suitable for livestock, and your servants have livestock.If we have found favor in your eyes,” they said,“ let this land be given to your servants as our possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”Moses said to the Gadites and Reubenites,“ Should your fellow Israelites go to war while you sit here?Why do you discourage the Israelites from crossing over into the land the Lord has given them?This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look over the land.After they went up to the Valley of Eshkol and viewed the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the Lord had given them.The Lord’s anger was aroused that day and he swore this oath:‘ Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of those who were twenty years old or more when they came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the Lord wholeheartedly.’The Lord’s anger burned against Israel and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.“ And here you are, a brood of sinners, standing in the place of your fathers and making the Lord even more angry with Israel.If you turn away from following him, he will again leave all this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”Then they came up to him and said,“ We would like to build pens here for our livestock and cities for our women and children.But we will arm ourselves for battle and go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our women and children will live in fortified cities, for protection from the inhabitants of the land.We will not return to our homes until each of the Israelites has received their inheritance.We will not receive any inheritance with them on the other side of the Jordan, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”Then Moses said to them,“ If you will do this— if you will arm yourselves before the Lord for battleand if all of you who are armed cross over the Jordan before the Lord until he has driven his enemies out before him—then when the land is subdued before the Lord, you may return and be free from your obligation to the Lord and to Israel. And this land will be your possession before the Lord.“ But if you fail to do this, you will be sinning against the Lord; and you may be sure that your sin will find you out.Build cities for your women and children, and pens for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”The Gadites and Reubenites said to Moses,“ We your servants will do as our lord commands.Our children and wives, our flocks and herds will remain here in the cities of Gilead.But your servants, every man who is armed for battle, will cross over to fight before the Lord, just as our lord says.”Then Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and to the family heads of the Israelite tribes.He said to them,“ If the Gadites and Reubenites, every man armed for battle, cross over the Jordan with you before the Lord, then when the land is subdued before you, you must give them the land of Gilead as their possession.But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must accept their possession with you in Canaan.”The Gadites and Reubenites answered,“ Your servants will do what the Lord has said.We will cross over before the Lord into Canaan armed, but the property we inherit will be on this side of the Jordan.”Then Moses gave to the Gadites, the Reubenites and the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan— the whole land with its cities and the territory around them.The Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,Atroth Shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran as fortified cities, and built pens for their flocks.And the Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh and Kiriathaim,as well as Nebo and Baal Meon( these names were changed) and Sibmah. They gave names to the cities they rebuilt.The descendants of Makir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it and drove out the Amorites who were there.So Moses gave Gilead to the Makirites, the descendants of Manasseh, and they settled there.Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, captured their settlements and called them Havvoth Jair.And Nobah captured Kenath and its surrounding settlements and called it Nobah after himself.

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night.That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers.

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

About Joseph he said:“ May the Lord bless his land with the precious dew from heaven above and with the deep waters that lie below;with the best the sun brings forth and the finest the moon can yield;with the choicest gifts of the ancient mountains and the fruitfulness of the everlasting hills;with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwelt in the burning bush. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among his brothers.In majesty he is like a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth. Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim; such are the thousands of Manasseh.”

But his father refused and said,“ I know, my son, I know. He too will become a people, and he too will become great. Nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a group of nations.”He blessed them that day and said,“ In your name will Israel pronounce this blessing:‘ May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.

the Angel who has delivered me from all harm— may he bless these boys. May they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they increase greatly on the earth.”

The people of Joseph said to Joshua,“ Why have you given us only one allotment and one portion for an inheritance? We are a numerous people, and the Lord has blessed us abundantly.”“ If you are so numerous,” Joshua answered,“ and if the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go up into the forest and clear land for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaites.”The people of Joseph replied,“ The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the plain have chariots fitted with iron, both those in Beth Shan and its settlements and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”But Joshua said to the tribes of Joseph— to Ephraim and Manasseh—“ You are numerous and very powerful. You will have not only one allotment

Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive.She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said,“ God has taken away my disgrace.”She named him Joseph, and said,“ May the Lord add to me another son.”

Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him.

Its branches were strong, fit for a ruler’s scepter. It towered high above the thick foliage, conspicuous for its height and for its many branches.

Some time later Joseph was told,“ Your father is ill.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him.