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1 And it came to pass af­ter these things, that one told Joseph, Be­hold, thy fa­ther is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Man­asseh and Ephraim. 2 And one told Ja­cob, and said, Be­hold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Is­rael strength­ened him­self, and sat upon the bed. 3 And Ja­cob said unto Joseph, God Almighty ap­peared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4 And said unto me, Be­hold, I will make thee fruit­ful, and mul­ti­ply thee, and I will make of thee a mul­ti­tude of peo­ple; and will give this land to thy seed af­ter thee for an ev­er­last­ing pos­ses­sion. 5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Man­asseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt be­fore I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Sime­on, they shall be mine. 6 And thy is­sue, which thou begettest af­ter them, shall be thine, and shall be called af­ter the name of their brethren in their in­her­i­tance. 7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a lit­tle way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth­le­hem. 8 And Is­rael be­held Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these? 9 And Joseph said unto his fa­ther, They are my sons, whom God hath giv­en me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. 10 Now the eyes of Is­rael were dim for age, ­so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and em­braced them. 11 And Is­rael said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed. 12 And Joseph brought them out from be­tween his knees, and he bowed him­self with his face to the earth. 13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand to­ward Israel's left hand, and Man­asseh in his left hand to­ward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him. 14 And Is­rael stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guid­ing his hands wit­ting­ly; for Man­asseh was the first­born. 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, be­fore whom my fa­thers Abra­ham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, 16 The An­gel which re­deemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fa­thers Abra­ham and Isaac; and let them grow into a mul­ti­tude in the midst of the earth. 17 And when Joseph saw that his fa­ther laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it dis­pleased him: and he held up his father's hand, to re­move it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. 18 And Joseph said unto his fa­ther, Not so, my fa­ther: for this is the first­born; put thy right hand upon his head. 19 And his fa­ther re­fused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall be­come a peo­ple, and he also shall be great: but tru­ly his younger broth­er shall be greater than he, and his seed shall be­come a mul­ti­tude of na­tions. 20 And he blessed them that day, say­ing, In thee shall Is­rael bless, say­ing, God make thee as Ephraim and as Man­asseh: and he set Ephraim be­fore Man­asseh. 21 And Is­rael said unto Joseph, Be­hold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fa­thers. 22 More­over I have giv­en to thee one por­tion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amor­ite with my sword and with my bow.