1Now after this it was reported to Joseph, "Behold, your father is in a sorry state." He took his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, and came to his father Israel.
2When Israel saw them, he said to Joseph, "Who are these, my son?" Joseph said to his father Jacob Israel, "These are my sons that God has given me in the land of my humiliation."
3Israel said, "Bring them near to me." Now Israel's sight had failed because of his great age, and he could hardly see. And Joseph brought them close to him; and he kissed them.
4When Israel had embraced them, he said, "God will add to your descendants." And Joseph made his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, do obeisance to him on the ground: Joseph put Manasseh under his right hand and Ephraim under his left hand.
5But Israel changed his hands: he laid his right hand on Ephraim’s head and his left hand on Manasseh’s head. And he blessed them; he gave them their patrimony, saying: "The God who approved my fathers Abraham and Isaac, The God who has looked after me from my childhood till today, The angel who rescues me from all my tribulations, Bless these lads who are my sons. With whom is left my name, And the name of my holy fathers Abraham and Isaac. They shall multiply; they shall increase; They shall become a great people on the earth."
6Afterwards Israel said to Joseph, "I am dying: but you will return to the land of your fathers, and God will be with you. Behold, you have been more favoured than your brothers, for I have taken the Amorites with my bow and my sword."