| Gen. 48:1 |
Now after these things Joseph was told, Your father is sick. So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. |
| Gen. 48:2 |
And someone told Jacob and said, Your son Joseph is coming to you. So Israel strengthened himself and sat up on his bed. |
| Gen. 48:3 |
And Jacob said to Joseph, The All-sufficient God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me. |
| Gen. 48:4 |
And He said to me, Behold, I am going to make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession. |
| Gen. 48:5 |
And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are. |
| Gen. 48:6 |
And your offspring whom you beget after them will be yours; they will be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance. |
| Gen. 48:7 |
And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died to my sorrow in the land of Canaan on the way, while there was still some distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). |
| Gen. 48:8 |
And when Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said, Who are these? |
| Gen. 48:9 |
And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given to me here. And he said, Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them. |
| Gen. 48:10 |
Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, and he could not see. So Joseph brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them. |
| Gen. 48:11 |
And Israel said to Joseph, I never expected to see your face, and now God has let me see your seed also. |
| Gen. 48:12 |
And Joseph brought them out from between his knees and bowed himself with his face to the ground. |
| Gen. 48:13 |
And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near to him. |
| Gen. 48:14 |
But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid [it] upon Ephraim's head--although he was the younger--and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands with insight, even though Manasseh was the firstborn. |
| Gen. 48:15 |
And he blessed Joseph and said, / The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, / The God who has shepherded me all my life to this day, |
| Gen. 48:16 |
The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; / And may my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; / And may they be a teeming multitude in the midst of the earth. |
| Gen. 48:17 |
And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; and he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head onto Manasseh's head. |
| Gen. 48:18 |
And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand upon his head. |
| Gen. 48:19 |
But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations. |
| Gen. 48:20 |
And he blessed them that day, saying, By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying, / God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh. Thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh. |
| Gen. 48:21 |
And Israel said to Joseph, Now I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers. |
| Gen. 48:22 |
Moreover I have given to you one portion more than your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. |