| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Some time after this, Joseph was told, "Your father is weaker." So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2When Jacob was told, "Your son Joseph has come to you," Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He said to me, 'I will make you fruitful and numerous; I will make many nations come from you, and I will give this land as an eternal possession to your future descendants.' |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Your two sons born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt are now mine. Ephraim and Manasseh belong to me just as Reuben and Simeon do. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Children born to you after them will be yours and will be recorded under the names of their brothers with regard to their inheritance. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7When I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way, some distance from Ephrath in the land of Canaan. I buried her there along the way to Ephrath," (that is, Bethlehem). |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8When Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said, "Who are these?" |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons God has given me here." So Jacob said, "Bring them to me and I will bless them." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Now his eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly see. Joseph brought them to him, and he kissed and embraced them. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Israel said to Joseph, "I never expected to see your face again, but now God has even let me see your offspring." |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Then Joseph took them from his father's knees and bowed with his face to the ground. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then Joseph took them both--with his right hand Ephraim toward Israel's left, and with his left hand Manasseh toward Israel's right--and brought them to Israel. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and crossing his hands, put his left on Manasseh's head, although Manasseh was the firstborn. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Then he blessed Joseph and said: The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16the Angel who has redeemed me from all harm-- may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow to be numerous within the land. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim's head, he thought it was a mistake and took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Joseph said to his father, "Not that way, my father! This one is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know! He too will become a tribe, and he too will be great; nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a populous nation." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20So he blessed them that day with these words: The nation Israel will invoke blessings by you, saying," May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh," putting Ephraim before Manasseh. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then Israel said to Joseph, "Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Over and above what I am giving your brothers, I am giving you the one mountain slope that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and bow." |
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