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Genesis 49
22 ¶Joseph is a
fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whosebranches run over the wall:
23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at
him, and hated him:
24 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:)
25 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:
26 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.
Genesis 50
22 ¶And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his
father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
23 And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the
third generation: the children also of Machir the son
of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.
24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God
will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto
the land which he sware to Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob.
25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of
Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up
my bones from hence.
26 So Joseph died, being an
hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in
a coffin in Egypt.
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1 Nephi 3
1 And now I speak unto you, Joseph, my last-born.
Thou wast born in the wilderness of mine
afflictions; yea, in the days of my greatest sorrow did thy mother bear thee.
2 And may the Lord consecrate also unto thee
this land, which is a most precious land, for thine inheritance and the
inheritance of thy seed with thy brethren, for thy security forever, if it so
be that ye shall keep the commandments of the Holy One of Israel.
3 And now, Joseph, my last-born, whom I have brought out
of the wilderness of mine afflictions, may the Lord bless thee forever, for
thy seed shall not utterly be destroyed.
4 For behold, thou art the fruit of my loins; and I am a
descendant of Joseph who was carried captive into Egypt.
And great were the covenants of the Lord which he made unto Joseph.
5 Wherefore, Joseph truly saw our day. And he
obtained a promise of the Lord, that out of the fruit of his loins
the Lord God would raise up a righteous branch unto the house
of Israel; not the Messiah, but a branch which was to be broken off,
nevertheless, to be remembered in the covenants of the Lord that the Messiah
should be made manifest unto them in the latter days, in the spirit
of power, unto the bringing of them out of darkness unto light—yea,
out of hidden darkness and out of captivity unto freedom.
6 For Joseph truly testified, saying:
A seer shall the Lord my God raise up, who shall be a choice seer
unto the fruit of my loins.
7 Yea, Joseph truly said: Thus saith
the Lord unto me: A choice seer will I raise up out of
the fruit of thy loins; and he shall be esteemed highly among the fruit of
thy loins. And unto him will I give commandment that he shall do a work for
the fruit of thy loins, his brethren, which shall be of great worth unto
them, even to the bringing of them to the knowledge of the covenants
which I have made with thy fathers.
8 And I will give unto him a commandment that he shall
do none other work, save the work which I shall command him. And I
will make him great in mine eyes; for he shall do my work.
9 And he shall be great like unto Moses, whom I have
said I would raise up unto you, to deliver my people, O house
of Israel.
10 And Moses will I raise up, to deliver thy
people out of the land of Egypt.
11 But a seer will I raise up out of the fruit
of thy loins; and unto him will I give power to bring
forth my word unto the seed of thy loins—and not to the bringing forth
my word only, saith the Lord, but to the convincing
them of my word, which shall have already gone forth among them.
12 Wherefore, the fruit of thy loins shall write; and
the fruit of the loins of Judah shall write; and that which
shall be written by the fruit of thy loins, and also that which shall be
written by the fruit of the loins of Judah, shall grow together, unto
the confounding of false doctrines and laying down of
contentions, and establishing peace among the fruit of thy loins,
and bringing them to the knowledge of their fathers in
the latter days, and also to the knowledge of my covenants, saith the Lord.
13 And out of weakness he shall be made strong, in that
day when my work shall commence among all my people, unto the restoring thee,
O house of Israel, saith the Lord.
14 And thus prophesied Joseph, saying:
Behold, that seer will the Lord bless; and they that seek to destroy him
shall be confounded; for this promise, which I have obtained of the Lord, of
the fruit of my loins, shall be fulfilled. Behold, I am sure of the
fulfilling of this promise;
15 And his name shall be called
after me; and it shall be after the name of his father. And he
shall be like unto me; for the thing, which the Lord shall bring
forth by his hand, by the power of the Lord shall bring my people
unto salvation.
16 Yea, thus prophesied Joseph: I am sure of this thing,
even as I am sure of the promise of Moses; for the Lord hath said unto me, I
will preserve thy seed forever.
17 And the Lord hath said: I will raise up a Moses; and I
will give power unto him in a rod; and I will give judgment unto him in
writing. Yet I will not loose his tongue, that he
shall speak much, for I will not make him mighty in speaking. But I
will write unto him my law, by the finger of mine own hand; and I
will make a spokesman for him.
18 And the Lord said unto me also: I will
raise up unto the fruit of thy loins; and I will make for him a spokesman.
And I, behold, I will give unto him that he shall write the writing of the
fruit of thy loins, unto the fruit of thy loins; and the spokesman of thy
loins shall declare it.
19 And the words which he shall write shall
be the words which are expedient in my wisdom should go forth unto
the fruit of thy loins. And it shall be as if the fruit of thy
loins had cried unto them from the dust; for I know their faith.
20 And they shall cry from
the dust; yea, even repentance unto their brethren, even after many
generations have gone by them. And it shall come to pass that their cry shall
go, even according to the simpleness of their
words.
21 Because of their faith their words shall proceed
forth out of my mouth unto their brethren who are the fruit of thy loins; and
the weakness of their words will I make strong in their faith, unto the
remembering of my covenant which I made unto thy fathers.
22 And now, behold, my son Joseph, after this manner did
my father of old prophesy.
23 Wherefore, because of this covenant thou
art blessed; for thy seed shall not be destroyed, for they
shall hearken unto the words of the book.
24 And there shall rise up one mighty among
them, who shall do much good, both in word and in deed, being an instrument
in the hands of God, with exceeding faith, to work mighty wonders, and do
that thing which is great in the sight of God, unto the bringing to pass
much restoration unto the house of Israel, and unto the seed of thy
brethren.
25 And now, blessed art thou, Joseph. Behold, thou art
little; wherefore hearken unto the words of thy brother, Nephi, and it shall
be done unto thee even according to the words which I have spoken. Remember
the words of thy dying father. Amen.
1 Nephi 4
1 And now, I, Nephi, speak concerning the
prophecies of which my father hath spoken, concerning Joseph, who was
carried into Egypt.
2 For behold, he truly prophesied concerning
all his seed. And the prophecies which he wrote, there are not many
greater. And he prophesied concerning us, and our future generations; and
they are written upon the plates of brass.
3 Wherefore, after my father had made an end
of speaking concerning the prophecies of Joseph
2 Nephi 25
21 Wherefore, for this cause hath the Lord
God promised unto me that these things which I write shall be kept
and preserved, and handed down unto my seed, from generation to generation,
that the promise may be fulfilled unto Joseph, that his seed should never perish as
long as the earth should stand.
22 Wherefore, these things shall go from
generation to generation as long as the earth shall stand; and they shall go
according to the will and pleasure of God; and the nations who shall possess
them shall be judged of them according to the words which are
written.
Jacob 2
25 Wherefore, thus saith the
Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power
of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from
the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
Alma 46
23 Moroni said unto them: Behold, we are
a remnant of the seed of Jacob; yea, we are a remnant of the seed
of Joseph, whose coat was rent by his brethren into many
pieces; yea, and now behold, let us remember to keep the commandments of God,
or our garments shall be rent by our brethren, and we be cast into prison, or
be sold, or be slain.
24 Yea, let us preserve our liberty as
a remnant of Joseph; yea, let us remember the words of Jacob,
before his death, for behold, he saw that a part of
the remnant of the coat of Joseph was preserved and had not
decayed. And he said—Even as this remnant of garment of my son hath been
preserved, so shall a remnant of the seed of my son be preserved by
the hand of God, and be taken unto himself, while the remainder of the seed
of Joseph shall perish, even as the remnant of his garment.
25 Now behold, this giveth my soul sorrow;
nevertheless, my soul hath joy in my son, because of that part of his seed
which shall be taken unto God.
26 Now behold, this was the language of
Jacob.
27 And now who knoweth
but what the remnant of the seed of Joseph, which shall perish as his
garment, are those who have dissented from us? Yea, and even it shall be
ourselves if we do not stand fast in the faith of Christ.
3 Nephi 10
16 Yea, the prophet Zenos did testify of these things, and also Zenock spake concerning these
things, because they testified particularly concerning us, who are the
remnant of their seed.
17 Behold, our father Jacob also testified
concerning a remnant of the seed of Joseph. And behold, are not we
a remnant of the seed of Joseph? And these things which testify of us, are
they not written upon the plates of brass which our father Lehi brought out
of Jerusalem?
Ether 13
4 Behold, Ether saw the days of Christ, and
he spake concerning a New Jerusalem upon
this land.
5 And he spake
also concerning the house of Israel, and the Jerusalem from
whence Lehi should come—after it should be destroyed it should be
built up again, a holy city unto the Lord; wherefore, it could not
be a new Jerusalem for it had been in a time of old; but it should be built
up again, and become a holy city of the Lord; and it should be built unto the
house of Israel—
6 And that a New Jerusalem should
be built up upon this land, unto the remnant of the seed of Joseph, for
which things there has been a type.
7 For as Joseph brought his father down into
the land of Egypt, even so he died there; wherefore, the Lord brought a
remnant of the seed of Joseph out of the land of Jerusalem, that he might be
merciful unto the seed of Joseph that they should perish not, even
as he was merciful unto the father of Joseph that he should perish not.
8 Wherefore, the remnant of the house of
Joseph shall be built upon this land; and it shall be a land of their
inheritance; and they shall build up a holy city unto the Lord,
like unto the Jerusalem of old; and they shall no more be
confounded, until the end come when the earth shall pass away.
9 And there shall be a new heaven
and a new earth; and they shall be like unto the old save the old have passed
away, and all things have become new.
10 And then cometh the New Jerusalem; and
blessed are they who dwell therein, for it is they whose garments
are white through the blood of the Lamb; and they are they who are
numbered among the remnant of the seed of Joseph, who were of the house of
Israel.
11 And then also cometh
the Jerusalem of old; and the inhabitants thereof, blessed are
they, for they have been washed in the blood of the Lamb; and they are they
who were scattered and gathered in from the four quarters of the earth, and from
the north countries, and are partakers of the fulfilling of the
covenant which God made with their father, Abraham.
12 And when these things come, bringeth to pass the scripture which saith,
there are they who were first, who shall be last; and there are they who
were last, who shall be first.
13 And I was about to write more, but I am
forbidden;
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