¹² For thus says the Lord:

³ So she said, “Here is ^(A)my maid Bilhah; go in to her, ^(B)and she will bear a child on my knees, ^(C)that I also may ^[a]have children by her.”

²³ Joseph saw Ephraim’s children ^(A)to the third generation. ^(B)The children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, ^(C)were also brought up on Joseph’s knees.

⁴ As for your nativity, ^(A)on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. ⁵ No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into the open field, when you yourself were ^[a]loathed on the day you were born.