Genesis 48:1-10 ▼

1 And it came about after these things that someone said to Joseph, |Look, your father is sick.| And taking with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, he went to Jacob.

2 And someone reported to Jacob, and said, |Look, your son Joseph has come to you.| Then Israel strengthened himself and sat up in the bed.

3 And Jacob said to Joseph, |El Shaddai appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,

4 and said to me, 'Look, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.'

5 And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.

6 And your offspring born to you after them will be yours. But in their inheritance they are to be called after the names of their brothers.

7 But as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died, in my sorrow, in the land of Canaan on the journey, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath. And I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).|

8 Then Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, |Who are these?|

9 And Joseph said to his father, |They are my sons, whom God has given me here.| And he said, |Please bring them to me, so that I can bless them.|

10 Now the eyes of Israel were failing because of his age, so that he couldn’t see. Then he brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.