It displeased him Joseph had placed his children so as that Jacob's right hand should be put on the head of Manasseh the eldest, Genesis 48:12; but Jacob would put it on the head of Ephraim the youngest, Genesis 48:14. This displeased Joseph, who was willing to support the reputation of his firstborn, and would therefore have removed his father's hands, (Genesis 48:17,) but Jacob gave him to understand that he knew what he did, and that he did it neither by mistake nor in a humour, nor from a partial affection to one more than the other, but from a spirit of prophecy.

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