Genesis 50 · Verse 23

Genesis 50:23

And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.
Genesis 50:23, King James Version

Genesis 50:23 in other translations

BSBHe saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were brought up on Joseph’s knees.
WEBJoseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.
ASVAnd Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph’s knees.
YLTand 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.
DARBYAnd Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the sons also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on Joseph's knees.
BBEAnd Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees.
WebsterAnd Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were brought up upon Joseph's knees.

What does Genesis 50:23 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 50:22-23

22-23. Joseph dwelt in Egypt--He lived eighty years after his elevation to the chief power [see on Ge 41:46] witnessing a great increase in the prosperity of the kingdom, and also of his own family and kindred--the infant Church of God.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 23 Were brought up upon Joseph's knees - They were educated by him, or under his direction; his sons and their children continuing to acknowledge him as patriarch, or head of the family, as long as he lived.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 50:22-26

Joseph having honoured his father, his days were long in the land, which, for the present, God had given him. When he saw his death approaching, he comforted his brethren with the assurance of their return to Canaan in due time. We must comfort others with the same comforts with which we have been comforted of God, and encourage them to rest on the promises which are our support. For a confession of his own faith…

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Genesis 50:23 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיַּ֤רְאvai.Yar'and he sawH7200
יוֹסֵף֙yo.SefJosephH3130
לְאֶפְרַ֔יִםle.'ef.Ra.yimof EphraimH669
בְּנֵ֖יbe.Neisons ofH1121
שִׁלֵּשִׁ֑יםshi.le.Shima third generationH8029
גַּ֗םGamalsoH1571
בְּנֵ֤יbe.Nei[the] sons ofH1121
מָכִיר֙ma.KhirMakirH4353
בֶּן\־ben-[the] son ofH1121
מְנַשֶּׁ֔הme.na.ShehManassehH4519
יֻלְּד֖וּyu.le.Duthey were bornH3205
עַל\־'al-onH5921
בִּרְכֵּ֥יbir.Kei[the] knees ofH1290
יוֹסֵֽף\׃yo.SefJosephH3130

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Genesis 50:23

  • Numbers 32:39

    And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.

  • Job 42:16

    After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

  • Genesis 30:3

    And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

  • Genesis 48:19

    And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

  • Psalms 128:6

    Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.

  • Joshua 17:1

    There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

  • Numbers 32:33

    And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the 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, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.

  • Genesis 49:12

    His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the children.
48:19; 49:12; Nu 32:33,39; Jos 17:1; Job 42:16; Ps 128:6
brought up. Heb. born. Joseph's.
30:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Genesis 50:22

    And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

  • Genesis 50:23

    And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.

  • Genesis 50:24

    And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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Genesis 50:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y vió José los hijos de Ephraim hasta la tercera generación: también los hijos de Machîr, hijo de Manasés, fueron criados sobre las rodillas de José.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Joseph vit les fils d’Éphraïm de la troisième génération; les fils aussi de Makir, fils de Manassé, naquirent sur les genoux de Joseph.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Joseph sah von Ephraim Kinder des dritten Gliedes; auch die Söhne Makirs, des Sohnes Manasses, wurden auf die Knie Josephs geboren.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Quibus transactis, locutus est fratribus suis: Post mortem meam Deus visitabit vos, et ascendere vos faciet de terra ista ad terram quam juravit Abraham, Isaac et Jacob.