Quotes about Genesis
Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
- Genesis 48:15
Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.
- Genesis 49:3
Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
- Genesis 49:4
He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
- Genesis 49:11
Joseph is a fruitful vine—a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
- Genesis 49:22
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,
- Genesis 49:24
by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.
- Genesis 49:25
These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this was what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.
- Genesis 49:28
The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”
- Genesis 49:32
taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
- Genesis 50:3
Pharaoh replied, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”
- Genesis 50:6
along with all of Joseph’s household, and his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children and flocks and herds were left in Goshen.
- Genesis 50:8