Joseph Prophesy

Gen. 49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well; His branches run over the wall.

23The archers have bitterly grieved him, Shot at him and hated him.

24 But his bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob (From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),

25 by the God of your father who will help you, and by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

26 The blessings of your father have excelled the blessings of my ancestors. Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills.

And of Joseph he said: "Blessed of the LORD is his land, with the precious things of heaven, with the dew, And the deep lying beneath, with the precious fruits of the sun, with the precious produce of the months, with the best things of the ancient mountains, with the precious things of the everlasting hills, with the precious things of the earth and its fullness, and the favor of Him who dwelt in the bush. Let the blessing come on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.' His glory is like a firstborn bull, and his horns like the horns of the wild ox; Together with them He shall push the peoples to the ends of the earth; They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh."

The image of a sheaf of wheat comes from Joseph's dream, where the brother's sheaves bow to his (Bereshit 37:5-8). It also relates to his interpretation of Pharaoh's dream about the seven stalks of grain (Bereshit 41:22-24) and the subsequent accumulation, while the grand Vizier of Egypt, of grain during the seven good years as it is narrated in Bereshit 41:48-49.