1. After these things, it was told Joseph that his father was sick: and he set out to go to him, taking his two sons Manasses and Ephraim.
2. And it was told the old man: Behold I thy son Joseph cometh to thee. And being strengthened he sat on his bed.
3. And when Joseph was come in to him, he said: God Almighty appeared to me at Lute, which is in the land of Chanaan: and he blessed me,
4. And he said: I will cause thee to increase and multiply, and I will make of thee a multitude of people: and I will give this land to thee, and to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
5. So thy two sons who were born to thee in the land of Egypt before I came hither to thee, shall be mine: Ephraim and Manasses shall be reputed to me as Ruben and Simeon.
6. But the rest whom thou shalt have after them, shall be thine, and shall be called by the name of their brethren in their possessions.
7. For, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died from me in the land of Ohanaan in the very journey, and it was springtime: and I was going to Ephrata, and I buried her near the way of Ephrata, which by another name is called Bethlehem.
8. Then seeing his sons, he said to him: Who are these?
9. He answered: They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said: Bring them to me that I may bless them.
10. For Israel's eyes were dim by reason of his great age, and he could not see clearly. And when they were brought to him, he kissed and embraced them.
11. And said to his son: I am not deprived of seeing thee: moreover God hath shewed me thy seed.