Genesis 48:6-8

Good News Translation

⁶ If you have any more sons, they will not be considered mine; the inheritance they get will come through Ephraim and Manasseh. ^7 (A)I am doing this because of your mother Rachel. To my great sorrow she died in the land of Canaan, not far from Ephrath, as I was returning from Mesopotamia. I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath.” (Ephrath is now known as Bethlehem.)

⁸ When Jacob saw Joseph's sons, he asked, “Who are these boys?”