Genesis Chapter 48 verse 12 Holy Bible
And Joseph brought them out from between his knees; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
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Then Joseph took them from between his knees, and went down on his face to the earth.
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And Joseph brought them out from his knees, and bowed down with his face to the earth.
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And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
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And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
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Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
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And Joseph bringeth them out from between his knees, and boweth himself on his face to the earth;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - And Joseph brought them out from between his knees (literally, from near his knees, i.e. the knees of his father, who while in the act of embracing had drawn them into that position), and he (viz. Joseph) bowed himself with his face to the earth. The reading "and they bowed themselves," i.e. Ephraim and Manasseh (Samaritan, Michaelis), and the rendering καὶ προσκύνησαν αὐτῴ (LXX.), are incorrect.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) He bowed himself.--The Samaritan, Syriac, and LXX. Versions regard the Hebrew verb as a contracted plural, and many modern commentators adopt this view. It would thus be Manasseh and Ephraim who stood before Jacob with faces bent towards the ground. The pronoun, however, is in favour of the verb being singular, and the sense it gives is equally satisfactory.