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Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold: the daughters run to and fro upon the wall;
Genesis 49:22 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Genesis 49:22 in other translations
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.
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In context
19 Gad, being girded, shall fight before him: and he himself shall be girded backward.
20 Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to kings.
21 Nephthali, a hart let loose, and giving words of beauty.
22 Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold: the daughters run to and fro upon the wall;
23 But they that held darts, provoked him, and quarrelled with him, and envied him.
24 His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.
25 The God of thy father shall be thy helper, and the Almighty shall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, with the blessings of the deep that lieth beneath, with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
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