Genesis 48:16
Good News Translation
May the angel, who has rescued me from all harm, bless them! May my name and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac live on through these boys! May they have many children, many descendants!"

New Revised Standard Version
the angel who has redeemed me from all harm, bless the boys; and in them let my name be perpetuated, and the name of my ancestors Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude on the earth.”

Contemporary English Version
and his angel has kept me safe. Now I pray that he will bless these boys and that my name and the names of Abraham and Isaac will live on because of them. I ask God to give them many children and many descendants as well.

New American Bible
The angel who has delivered me from all harm, bless these boys That in them my name be recalled, and the names of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, And they may become teeming multitudes upon the earth!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
The angel that delivereth me from all evils, bless these boys: and let my name be called upon them, and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The angel that delivereth me from all evils, bless these boys: and let my name be called upon them, and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.

Angel.

Genesis 16:7-13 And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert, . . .

Genesis 28:15 And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.

Genesis 31:11-13 And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob. And I answered: Here I am. . . .

Exodus 3:2-6 And the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he saw that the bush was on fire, and was not burnt. . . .

Exodus 23:20,21 Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee, and keep thee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have prepared. . . .

Judges 2:1-4 And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the place of weepers, and said: I made you go out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land for which I swore to your fathers: and I promised that I would not make void my covenant with you for ever: . . .

Judges 6:21-24 The angel of the Lord put forth the tip of the rod, which he held in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened loaves: and there arose a fire from the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened loaves: and the angel of the Lord vanished out of his sight. . . .

Judges 13:21 And the angel of the Lord appeared to them no more. And forthwith Manue understood that it was an angel of the Lord,

Judges 13:22 And he said to his wife: We shall certainly die, because we have seen God.

Psalm 34:7,22 The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him: and shall deliver them. . . .

Psalm 121:7 The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul.

Isaiah 47:4 Our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.

Hosea 12:4,5 And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us. . . .

Malachi 3:1 Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way before my face. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the angel of the testament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Behold, he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts.

Acts 7:30-35 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him, in the desert of mount Sina, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:4,9 And all drank the same spiritual drink: (And they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.) . . .

redeemed.

Psalm 34:2 In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and rejoice.

Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.

John 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.

Romans 8:23 And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit: even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body.

2 Timothy 4:18 The Lord hath delivered me from every evil work and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom. To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

my name.

Genesis 48:5 So thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt before I came hither to thee, shall be mine: Ephraim and Manasses shall be reputed to me as Ruben and Simeon.

Genesis 32:28 But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel; for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?

Deuteronomy 28:10 And all the people of the earth shall see that the name of the Lord is invocated upon thee, and they shall fear thee.

2 Chronicles 7:14 And my people, upon whom my name is called, being converted, shall make supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for their most wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins and will heal their land.

Jeremiah 14:9 Why wilt thou be as a wandering man, as a mighty man that cannot save? but thou, O Lord, art among us, and thy name is called upon by us, forsake us not.

Amos 9:12 In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, that is fallen: and I will close up the breaches of the walls thereof, and repair what was fallen: and I will rebuild it as in the days of old.

Acts 15:17 That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all nations upon whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who doth these things.

grow into.

Genesis 1:21,22 And God created the great whales, and every living and moving creature, which the waters brought forth, according to their kinds, and every winged fowl according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. . . .

Numbers 1:46 Were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men.

Numbers 26:34,37 These are the families of Manasses, and the number of them fifty-two thousand seven hundred. . . .

Fish are the most prolific of all animals: a tench lays

1,000 eggs, a carp

20,000, and Leuwenhouk counted in a middling sized cod,

9,384,000.00

A multitude.

Genesis 49:22 Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold: the daughters run to and fro upon the wall;

Exodus 1:7 The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.

Numbers 26:28-37 The sons of Joseph by their kindred, Manasses and Ephraim. . . .

Deuteronomy 33:17 His beauty as of the firstling of a bullock, his horns as the horns of a rhinoceros: with them shall he push the nations even to the ends of the earth. These are the multitudes of Ephraim and these the thousands of Manasses.

Joshua 17:17 And Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasses: Thou art a great people, and of great strength, thou shalt not have one lot only:

Context
Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh
15And Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph, and said: God, in whose sight my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, God that feedeth me from my youth until this day: 16The angel that delivereth me from all evils, bless these boys: and let my name be called upon them, and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.17And Joseph seeing that his father had put his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, was much displeased: and taking his father's hand, he tried to lift it from Ephraim's head, and to remove it to the head of Manasses.…
Cross References
Hebrews 11:21
By faith Jacob, dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and adored the top of his rod.

Genesis 22:11
And behold, an angel of the Lord from heaven called to him, saying: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.

Genesis 22:15
And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven, saying:

Genesis 28:13
And the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: The land, wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed.

Genesis 28:14
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and IN THEE and thy seed, all the tribes of the earth SHALL BE BLESSED.

Genesis 31:11
And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob. And I answered: Here I am.

Genesis 46:3
God said to him: I am the most mighty God of thy father; fear not, go down into Egypt, for I will make a great nation of thee there.

2 Samuel 4:9
But David answered Rechab, and Baana his brother, the sons of Remmon the Berothite, and said to them: As the Lord liveth, who hath delivered my soul out of all distress,

Jeremiah 15:21
And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the mighty.

Genesis 48:15
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