Genesis 48:1-6 ▼

1 Later Joseph was told, |Your father is ill.| So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim [to see Jacob].

2 When Jacob was told, |Your son Joseph is here to see you,| Israel gathered his strength and sat up in bed.

3 Jacob said to Joseph, |God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in Canaan and blessed me.

4 He said to me, 'I will make you fertile and increase the number of your descendants so that you will become a community of people. I will give this land to your descendants as a permanent possession.'

5 |So your two sons, who were born in Egypt before I came here, are my sons. Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine just as Reuben and Simeon are.

6 Any other children you have after them will be yours. They will inherit the land listed under their brothers' names.