And it came to pass after these things, that [one] told Joseph, Behold, thy father [is] sick. And he took with him his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim.
And [one] told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee; and Israel strengthened himself and sat upon the bed.
And Jacob said to Joseph, The Almighty God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me
and said to me, Behold I will make thee fruitful and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples; and I will give this land to thy seed after thee, an everlasting possession.
And now thy two sons, who were born to thee in the land of Egypt before I came to thee into Egypt, [shall be] mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine as Reuben and Simeon.
And thy family which thou hast begotten after them shall be thine: they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance,
And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan on the way, when yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem.
And Israel beheld Joseph’s sons and said, Who [are] these?
And Joseph said to his father, They [are] my sons whom God hath given me here. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee unto me, that I may bless them.
Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age—he could not see. And he brought them nearer to him; and he kissed them and embraced them.
And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face; and, behold, God hath also let me see thy seed.
And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and bowed down with his face to the earth.
And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand towards Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand towards Israel’s right hand, and brought [them] near to him.
And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid [it] on Ephraim’s head—and he [was] the younger—and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding wittingly his hands, for Manasseh [was] the first-born.
And he blessed Joseph and said, The God before whom walked my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, the God that tended me all my life long till this day,
the angel that redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth .
And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it was evil in his eyes; and he took hold of his father’s hand to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
And Joseph said to his father, Not so my father, for this [is] the first-born: put thy right hand on his head.
But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know: he also will become a people and he also will be great; but truly his younger brother will be greater than he; and his seed will become a fullness of nations.
And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and Manasseh; and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
And Israel said to Joseph, Behold I die; and God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.
And I have given to thee one slope [shoulder] above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.