Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh

48 After this, Joseph was told, “Behold, your father is ill.” So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

³ So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, ^(A)he whom you love is ill.”

¹⁶ And after this Job lived 140 years, and ^(A)saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.

²³ And Joseph saw Ephraim's children ^(A)of the third generation. The ^(B)children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were ^(C)counted as Joseph's own.^[a]

²⁰ And ^(A)to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of ^(B)On, bore to him.

⁵⁰ Before the year of famine came, ^(A)two sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him. ⁵¹ Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house.”^{[a] 52} The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has ^(B)made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”^[b]