Genesis 48:1-7

New International Version - UK

Manasseh and Ephraim

48 Some time later Joseph was told, ‘Your father is ill.’ So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him. ² When Jacob was told, ‘Your son Joseph has come to you,’ Israel rallied his strength and sat up on the bed.

³ Jacob said to Joseph, ‘God Almighty^[a] appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there he blessed me ⁴ and said to me, “I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.”

⁵ ‘Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine. ⁶ Any children born to you after them will be yours; in the territory they inherit they will be reckoned under the names of their brothers. ⁷ As I was returning from Paddan,^[b] to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan while we were still on the way, a little distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath’ (that is, Bethlehem).