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Read Full Chapter (Genesis 49) Genesis 49:22-23 KJV
"Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:"
Genesis Chapter 49, Verse 22-23
Genesis 49:22-23 in Context (Verses 19–26 KJV)
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¶ Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
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¶ Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
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¶ Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
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¶ Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:*
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The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
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But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
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Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
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The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.