Genesis 48:1-7

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48 One day not long after this, word came to Joseph that his father was failing rapidly. So, taking with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, he went to visit him. ² When Jacob heard that Joseph had arrived, he gathered his strength and sat up in the bed to greet him, ³ and said to him,

“God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me, ⁴ and said to me, ‘I will make you a great nation and I will give this land of Canaan to you and to your children’s children, for an everlasting possession.’ ⁵ And now, as to these two sons of yours, Ephraim and Manasseh, born here in the land of Egypt before I arrived, I am adopting them as my own, and they will inherit from me just as Reuben and Simeon will. ⁶ But any other children born to you shall be your own, and shall inherit Ephraim’s and Manasseh’s portion from you. ⁷ For your mother, Rachel, died after only two children^[a] when I came from Paddan-aram, as we were just a short distance from Ephrath, and I buried her beside the road to Bethlehem.”