1. Some time afterward, Joseph was informed, “Your father is failing.” So he took along with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
2. When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel rallied his strength and sat up in bed.
3. Jacob then said to Joseph: “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessing me,
4. he said, ‘I will make you fertile and multiply you and make you into an assembly of peoples, and I will give this land to your descendants after you as a permanent possession.’
5. So now your two sons who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I joined you here, shall be mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine as much as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
6. Progeny born to you after them shall remain yours; but their heritage shall be recorded in the names of their brothers.