Genesis, Chapter 48:
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Verses from Genesis, Chapter 48 of the Book of Genesis of the Bible.
Manasseh and Ephraim
- 1. Some time later, someone said to Joseph: “Your father is very sick.” So Joseph took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
- 2. When they informed Jacob, “Your son Joseph has come to see you,” Israel gathered his strength and sat down on the bed.
- 3. Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me in Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blessed me.
- 4. He said to me, 'I will make you fruitful and multiply you. I will make you a community of people and I will give this land as a perpetual possession to your descendants.'
- 5. “Now your two sons who were born in Egypt before I came here will be considered mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, as will Reuben and Simeon.
- 6. Any children you have after them will be yours and will inherit through your brothers.
- 7. “As for me, when I was coming from Paddan, Rachel died in the land of Canaan, on the way, while it was still some time before she reached Ephrathah; I buried her there, on the road to Ephrath”, which is Bethlehem.
- 8. When the children of Israel saw the children of Joseph, Jacob asked: Who are these?
- 9. Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." Jacob said to them, "Please bring them to me so that I may bless them."
- 10. Israel's eyes were tired because of old age, and he could barely see. Then Joseph brought them close to him, and Jacob kissed them and hugged them.
- 11. And Jacob said to Joseph, “I did not expect to see your face again, and now God has allowed me to see your children also.”
- 12. Joseph took them from his father's knees and bowed himself with his face to the ground.
- 13. Then Joseph took them and placed Ephraim on his right and Manasseh on his left.
- 14. But Jacob folded his hands, placing his right hand on the head of Ephraim, although he was the youngest, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, although he was the oldest.
- 15. And he blessed Joseph, saying: “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life until this day,
- 16. the angel who has delivered me from all evil, bless these boys. May they be called by my name and by the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they multiply and become many in the earth.”
- 17. When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim's head, he was displeased; then he took his father's hand to change it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasseh.
- 18. Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn; place your right hand on his head.”
- 19. But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He too will become a people, and he too will be great. But his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a multitude of nations.”
- 20. So on that day Jacob blessed them, saying, “For you, Israel will bless, saying, 'May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.'” And he placed Ephraim at the head of Manasseh.
- 21. Then Jacob said to Joseph, “See, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your ancestors.
- 22. “I have given you a portion more than your brothers, a portion that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”
