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Genesis 49:22

Joseph

20 Asher’s food will be rich; he shall provide royal delicacies.

21 Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.

Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.

23 The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.

24 Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
KJV
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
WEB
“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.
ASV
Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a fountain; His branches run over the wall.
DARBY
Joseph is a fruitful bough; A fruitful bough by a well; [His] branches shoot over the wall.
BLB
Joseph [is] a son of fruitfulness, a son of fruitfulness by a spring; daughters march over the wall.
ÅB
Et ungt frukttre er Josef, et ungt frukttre ved kilden; greinene skyter ut over muren.
OTB
«Josef er en fruktbar gren, en fruktbar gren ved en kilde; dens grener løper over en mur.
B1930
Et ungt frukttre er Josef, et ungt frukttre ved kilden; grenene skyter ut over muren.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Genesis 41:52

    And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

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  • Psalms 128:3

    Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.

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  • Psalms 1:1–3

    Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

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  • Joshua 16:1–10

    The allotment for the descendants of Joseph extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness that goes up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.

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  • Joshua 17:14–17

    Then the sons of Joseph said to Joshua, “Why have you given us only one portion as an inheritance? We have many people, because the LORD has blessed us abundantly.”

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  • Genesis 46:27

    And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.

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  • Genesis 30:22–24

    Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,

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  • Genesis 48:19–20

    But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”

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