Chuàngshìjì 48:5

5 Wǒ wèi dào Āijí jiàn nǐ zhī xiān , nǐ zaì Āijí dì suǒ shēng de Yǐfǎlián hé Mǎnáxī zhè liǎng gè érzi shì wǒde , zhēng rú Liúbiàn hé Xīmiǎn shì wǒde yíyàng .

Chuàngshìjì 48:5 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 48:5

And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh
Ephraim was the youngest, but is mentioned first, as he afterwards was preferred in the blessing of him: which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came unto
thee into Egypt;
and therefore must be twenty years of age, or upwards: for Jacob had been in Egypt seventeen years, and he came there when there had been two years of famine, and Joseph's sons were born to him before the years of famine began, ( Genesis 41:50 ) ; of these Jacob says, they [are] mine: as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine;
that is, by adoption; should be reckoned not as his grandchildren, but as his children, even as his two eldest sons, Reuben and Simeon; and so should be distinct tribes or heads of them, as his sons would be, and have a distinct part and portion in the land of Canaan; and thus the birthright was transferred from Reuben, because of his incest, to Joseph, who in his posterity had a double portion assigned him.

Chuàngshìjì 48:5 In-Context

3 Yǎgè duì Yūesè shuō , quánnéng de shén céng zaì Jiānán dì de Lùsī xiàng wǒ xiǎnxiàn , cì fú yǔ wǒ ,

4 Duì wǒ shuō , wǒ bì shǐ nǐ shēng yǎng zhòngduō , chéngwéi duō mín , yòu yào bǎ zhè dì cìgĕi nǐde hòuyì , yǒngyuǎn wéi yè .

5 Wǒ wèi dào Āijí jiàn nǐ zhī xiān , nǐ zaì Āijí dì suǒ shēng de Yǐfǎlián hé Mǎnáxī zhè liǎng gè érzi shì wǒde , zhēng rú Liúbiàn hé Xīmiǎn shì wǒde yíyàng .

6 Nǐ zaì tāmen yǐhòu suǒ shēng de jiù shì nǐde , tāmen kĕyǐ guīyú tāmen dìxiōng de míng xià de chǎnyè .

7 Zhìyú wǒ , wǒ cóng bā dàn lái de shíhou , Lājié sǐ zaì wǒ yǎnqián , zaì Jiānán dì de lù shàng , lí Yǐfǎtā hái yǒu yī duàn lùchéng , wǒ jiù bǎ tā zàng zaì Yǐfǎtā de lù shàng . Yǐfǎtā jiù shì Bólìhéng .