Some time later Joseph was told,
"Your father is ill."
So he took his two sons
Manasseh and Ephraim along with him.
When Jacob was told,
"Your son Joseph has come to you,"
Israel rallied his strength and sat up on the bed.
Jacob said to Joseph,
"God Almighty appeared to me a Luz
in the land of Canaan,
and there he blessed me and said to me,
'I am going to make you fruitful
and will increase your numbers.
I will make you a community of peoples,
and I will give this land
as an everlasting possession
to your descendants after you.'
"Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt
before I came to you here
will be reckoned as mine;
Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine,
just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
Any children born to you after them will be yours;
in the territory they inherit
they will be reckoned under the names of their brothers."
(Genesis 48:1-6)
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