And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,
Parallel translations
- WEB About Joseph he said, “His land is blessed by Yahweh, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath,
- BSB Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,
- NKJV And of Joseph he said: “Blessed of the Lord is his land, With the precious things of heaven, with the dew, And the deep lying beneath,
- NASB Of Joseph he said, “Blessed of the Lord be his land, With the choice things of heaven, with the dew, And from the deep waters lying beneath,
- NLT Moses said this about the tribes of Joseph: “May their land be blessed by the Lord with the precious gift of dew from the heavens and water from beneath the earth;
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Quick answer
Joseph's land is richly blessed by Yahweh with the bounty of heaven and the deep waters below. His blessing is one of extraordinary fruitfulness.
Overview
Joseph (through Ephraim and Manasseh) receives the fullest blessing, beginning with the precious gift of fertile land watered from above and below. This abundance echoes Jacob's blessing on Joseph (Gen. 49:25). All such material blessing ultimately flows from God the giver, and points to the greater spiritual riches lavished on God's people in Christ (Eph. 1:3).
Cross-references & the web
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- Gen 49:22–26Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
- Mic 5:7And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
- Prov 3:20By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
- Hos 14:5I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
- Isa 18:4For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
- Prov 19:12The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
- Zech 8:12For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
- Ps 110:3Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
- Job 29:19My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
- Gen 48:15–20And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
- Gen 27:28–29Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
- Gen 48:9And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
- Deut 32:2My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
- Gen 48:5And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
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