Verse 9
rivers = streams. Hebrew nahal = a wady.
Ephraim is My firstborn. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 4:22 ). App-92 . "My firstborn" occurs nowhere else. Compare Psalms 89:27 . Ephraim is put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), for all the ten tribes.
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