1. After these things, Joseph was told, “Your father is sick.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.
2. When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph is coming to you,” Israel strengthened himself and sat up in the bed.
3. Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me.
4. And He said to me, ‘I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make you into a multitude of people and will give this land to your descendants after you for an everlasting possession.’
5. “Now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
6. Any children you have after them will be yours and will be called by the names of their brothers in their inheritance.
7. As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to get to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”
8. Then Israel saw Joseph’s sons and said, “Whose are these?”
9. And Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me in this place.”And he said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.”
10. Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
11. Israel said to Joseph, “I never thought I would see your face, but here God has also shown me your children.”