18Joseph said to his father, |Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.|


In Context

15 He blessed Joseph, and said, |The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

16 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.|

17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.

18 Joseph said to his father, |Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.|

19 His father refused, and said, |I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations.|

20 He blessed them that day, saying, |In you will Israel bless, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh'| He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

Genesis 48:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

48:18And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this [is] the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

48:18Joseph said to him, "No, my father, this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

48:18And he said to his father: It should not be so, my father: for this is the first- born, put thy right hand upon his head.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

48:18And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

48:18And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn: put thy right hand on his head.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

48:18And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

48:18And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

48:18and Joseph saith unto his father, 'Not so, my father, for this is the first-born; set thy right hand on his head.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

48:18And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.