Genesis 48 And coming is it after these things that someone is saying to Joseph, "Behold! Your father is ailing.And taking is he his two sons with him, Manasseh and Ephraim, and comes to Jacob.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And coming is it after these things that someone is saying to Joseph, "Behold! Your father is ailing.And taking is he his two sons with him, Manasseh and Ephraim, and comes to Jacob. ² And someone is telling Jacob and saying, "Behold! Your son Joseph is coming to you.And encouraging himself is Israel, and is sitting on the couch. ³ And saying is Jacob to Joseph, "The El-Who-Suffices appeared to me in Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blessing me is He, ⁴ and saying to me, `Behold Me making you fruitful. And I increase you, and give you to be an assembly of peoples. And I give this land to you and to your seed after you for a freehold eonian.. ⁵ And now your two sons, born to you in the land of Egypt previous to my coming to you to Egypt, mine are they, Ephraim and Manasseh. As Reuben and as Simeon, shall they become mine. ⁶ Yet your kindred, whom you beget after them, are yours. Come shall they to be called by the name of their brothers in allotting their allotment. ⁷ And I, at my coming from Padan, Syria, Rachel, your mother, died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, while still some distance overland to come to Ephrath. And I entombed her there on the way to Ephrath.(It is now Bethlehem.. ⁸ And seeing is Israel the sons of Joseph. And saying is he, "Who are these? ⁹ And saying is Joseph to his father, "My sons are they, who were given me by the Elohim in this place.And saying is Jacob, "Take them, pray, to me and I will bless them. ¹⁰ Yet the eyes of Israel are heavy with age and he cannot see. And close is he bringing them to him. And kissing them is he and embracing them. ¹¹ And saying to Joseph is Israel, "To see your face I did not pray, and behold! The Elohim, moreover, shows me your seed. ¹² And forth is Joseph bringing them from between his knees, and is prostrating to him with his nostrils to the earth. ¹³ And taking is Joseph the two, Ephraim on his right at Israel's left, and Manasseh on his left at Israel's right, and is bringing them close to him. ¹⁴ And stretching out is Israel his right hand and is setting it on Ephraim's head, when he is the inferior in station, and his left on Manasseh's head, using his hands intelligently, for Manasseh is the firstborn. ¹⁵ And blessing them is he and saying, "The Elohim before Whom my forefathers, Abraham and Isaac, walked, the Elohim, my Shepherd from my youth till this day, ¹⁶ the Messenger, my Redeemer from all evil, bless these youths. And called on them shall be my name, and the name of my forefathers, Abraham and Isaac. And prolific shall they be, to make a vast increase within the land. ¹⁷ And seeing is Joseph that his father is setting his right hand on Ephraim's head, and evil is it in his eyes. And up is Joseph holding his father's hand, to take it away, off of Ephraim's head, on to Manasseh's head. ¹⁸ And saying is Joseph to his father, "Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Place your right on his head. ¹⁹ And refusing is his father and saying, "I know, my son! I know! Moreover, he shall become a people, and he shall become great. Howbeit, his smaller brother shall be greater than he. And his seed shall become a fullness of the nations. ²⁰ And blessing them is he in that day, saying, "By you shall Israel bless, saying, "The Elohim make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh!.And placing is he Ephraim before Manasseh. ²¹ And saying is Israel to Joseph, "Behold! I am dying. Yet the Elohim comes to be with you, and restores you to the land of your forefathers!" ²² And I, behold! I give to you Shechem, one share over your brothers, of that which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.