11. Then Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face again, and now God has allowed me to see your descendants as well!”
12. Joseph removed them from his father’s knees and bowed down before him with his face to the ground.
13. Then Joseph took the two, Ephraim with his right hand, to Israel’s left, and Manasseh with his left hand, to Israel’s right, and brought them up to him.
14. But Israel, crossing his hands, put out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, although he was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, although he was the firstborn.
15. Then he blessed them with these words:“May the God in whose presencemy fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,The God who has been my shepherdfrom my birth to this day,