1. After these things Joseph was told, “Your father is weakening.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.
2. When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has just come to you,” Israel regained strength and sat up on his bed.
3. Jacob said to Joseph, “The sovereign God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
4. He said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and will multiply you. I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession.’