Genesis 48:1-7

1Later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim ⌞to see Jacob⌟.

2When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph is here to see you,” Israel gathered his strength and sat up in bed.

3Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in Canaan and blessed me.

4He said to me, ‘I will make you fertile and increase the number of your descendants so that you will become a community of people. I will give this land to your descendants as a permanent possession.’

5“So your two sons, who were born in Egypt before I came here, are my sons. Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine just as Reuben and Simeon are.

6Any other children you have after them will be yours. They will inherit the land listed under their brothers’ names.

7As I was coming back from Paddan, Rachel died in Canaan when we were still some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there on the way to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).