Talk:Ephraim

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This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.

Sources 11 and 12 both refer to passages that have nothing to do with what is being cited. Genesis 41:52 describes the meaning of Ephraim's name (double fruitfulness etc) and 48:1 Joseph hears that Jacob is sick and so takes his two sons to go see him. In fact, this article directly contradicts the account given in Genesis. Joseph did not "trick" Jacob into blessing Ephraim. See Genesis 48:17-19 where Joseph tells Jacob he has made a mistake and blessed the younger of his two sons. Jacob explains that both sons will "be a people" but that the younger brother will be greater. This also makes it difficult to understand what is written in this article about some interpretations "conjecturing" that a play-on-words may indicate that Jacob knew which son he was blessing, though he was blind. This is explicitly confirmed in Genesis 48:19 - "But his father refused and said: I know my son, I know- he too will be a people, he too will be great, yet his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a full-measure of nations!"