1. Some time after this, Joseph was told, “Your father is weaker.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
2. When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.
3. Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
4. He said to me, ‘I will make you fruitful and numerous; I will make many nations come from you, and I will give this land as an eternal possession to your future descendants.’