Genesis 48:12
And when Joseph had taken them from his father's lap, he bowed down with his face to the ground.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cumque tulisset eos Joseph de gremio patris, adoravit pronus in terram.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐξήγαγεν Ἰωσὴφ αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τῶν γονάτων αὐτοῦ, καὶ προσεκύνησαν αὐτῷ ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיּוֹצֵ֥א יוֹסֵ֛ף אֹתָ֖ם מֵעִ֣ם בִּרְכָּ֑יו וַיִּשְׁתַּ֥חוּ לְאַפָּ֖יו אָֽרְצָה
Haydock's commentary
Lap, (gremio, breast,) after Jacob had embraced them; or from between his knees, where they knelt to receive his blessing.
Bowed down, out of reverence to his father, and to beg of God that he would put words of comfort into the mouth of his father, on this solemn and important occasion. Then, in order that his children might not lean upon, or incommode Jacob, he placed them, the elder at his right-hand, the other at his left. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.