8. When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he asked, “Who are they?”
9. “They are my sons, whom God has given me here in Egypt,” Joseph answered his father.Then Israel said, “Please bring them to me so that I may bless them.”
10. Israel’s eyesight was failing because of old age, and he could hardly see. So Joseph brought his sons close to his father, and Israel hugged them and kissed them.
11. Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see you again, and now God has even let me see your sons.”
12. Joseph took them off his father’s lap and bowed with his face touching the ground.
13. Then Joseph took both of them, Ephraim on his right, facing Israel’s left, and Manasseh on his left, facing Israel’s right, and brought them close to him.