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Now after these things Joseph was told, Your father is sick. So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
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And someone told Jacob and said, Your son Joseph is coming to you. So Israel strengthened himself and sat up on his bed.
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And Jacob said to Joseph, The
1aAll-sufficient God appeared to me at
bLuz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
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And He said to me, Behold, I am going to make you
afruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will
bgive this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.
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And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are
1mine;
aEphraim and Manasseh will be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.
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And your offspring whom you beget after them will be yours; they will be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
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And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel
adied 1to my sorrow in the land of Canaan on the way, while there was still some distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
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And when Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he said, Who are these?
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And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has
agiven to me here. And he said, Bring them to me, please, that I may
bbless them.
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Now the eyes of Israel were
adim with age, and he could not see. So
1Joseph brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
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And Israel said to Joseph, I never expected to see your face, and now God has let me see your seed also.
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And Joseph brought them out from between his knees and bowed himself with his face to the ground.
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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 to him.
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But aIsrael stretched out his right hand and laid it upon Ephraim’s head — although he was the younger — and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head,
1guiding his hands with insight, even though Manasseh was the firstborn.
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And he blessed Joseph and said,
The
1God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
The God who has
ashepherded me
2all my life to this day,
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The aAngel who has
bredeemed me from all evil, bless the boys;
And may my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
And may they be a teeming
cmultitude in the midst of the earth.
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And when Joseph saw that his father laid his
aright hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; and he took hold of his father’s hand to remove it from Ephraim’s head onto Manasseh’s head.
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And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand upon his head.
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But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a
1amultitude of nations.
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And he blessed them that day, saying,
By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying,
God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.
Thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
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And Israel said to Joseph, Now I am about to die, but God will be
awith you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.
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Moreover I have
agiven to you one
1portion more than your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
