48:17-22
Joseph saw what his father was doing, and was not happy about it. He told his father and tried to get him to change what he was doing, but Jacob refused. Jacob knew what he was doing. We are not told why he did this. Maybe he was remembering how he was blessed ahead of Esau, and wanted to do the same. One key difference with the Jacob/Esau situation is that both of them are blessed. Neither of them is being denied a blessing. So Ephraim was put ahead of Manasseh. Jacob knows that the people would one day return to Canaan, and that God would be with Joseph. The “one mountain slope” stuff is possibly a reference to Gen 34:25-29.
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