Bible Verses About Tribe Of Ephraim

On the seventh day, the prince of the sons of Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; --

his offering is one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels ; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present;

one golden spoon of ten shekels , full of perfume;

one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering;

one kid of the goats for a sin-offering;

and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this is the offering of Elishama son of Ammihud.

And of Joseph he said: --Blessed of Jehovah is his land, By precious things of the heavens, By dew, and by the deep crouching beneath,

And by precious things--fruits of the sun, And by precious things--cast forth by the moons,

And by chief things--of the ancient mountains, And by precious things--of the age-during heights,

And by precious things--of earth and its fulness, And the good pleasure Of Him who is dwelling in the bush, --Let it come for the head of Joseph, And for the crown of him Who is separate from his brethren.

His honour is a firstling of his ox, And his horns are horns of a reem; By them peoples he doth push together To the ends of earth; And they are the myriads of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.

And the border of the sons of Ephraim is by their families; and the border of their inheritance is on the east, Atroth-Addar unto Beth-Horon the upper;

and the border hath gone out at the sea, to Michmethah on the north, and the border hath gone round eastward to Taanath-Shiloh, and passed over it eastward to Janohah,

and gone down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and touched against Jericho, and gone out at the Jordan.

From Tappuah the border goeth westward unto the brook of Kanah, and its outgoings have been at the sea: this is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, for their families.

And the separate cities of the sons of Ephraim are in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities and their villages;

And the house of Joseph go up--even they--to Beth-El, and Jehovah is with them;

and the house of Joseph cause men to spy about Beth-El (and the name of the city formerly is Luz),

and the watchers see a man coming out from the city, and say to him, `Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance of the city, and we have done with thee kindness.'

And he sheweth them the entrance of the city, and they smite the city by the mouth of the sword, and the man and all his family they have sent away;

And the men of Ephraim say unto him, `What is this thing thou hast done to us--not to call for us when thou didst go to fight with Midian?' and they strive with him severely;

and he saith unto them, `What have I done now like you? are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the harvest of Abi-Ezer?

Into your hand hath God given the heads of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what have I been able to do like you?' Then their temper desisted from off him in his speaking this thing.

And the men of Ephraim are called together, and pass over northward, and say to Jephthah, `Wherefore has thou passed over to fight against the Bene-Ammon, and on us hast not called to go with thee? thy house we burn over thee with fire.'

And Jephthah saith unto them, `A man of great strife I have been (I and my people) with the Bene-Ammon, and I call you, and ye have not saved me out of their hand,