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,
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,
- KJV 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,
- 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,
- 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 49:22–26“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.
- Mic 5:7The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
- Prov 3:20By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.
- Hos 14:5I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
- Isa 18:4For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
- Prov 19:12The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
- Zech 8:12“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
- Ps 110:3Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
- Job 29:19My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
- Gen 48:15–20He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
- Gen 27:28–29God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
- Gen 48:9Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.”
- Deut 32:2My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
- Gen 48:5Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
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