Genesis 48:1-7

1After these things Joseph was told, “Your father is weakening.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

2When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has just come to you,” Israel regained strength and sat up on his bed.

3Jacob said to Joseph, “The sovereign God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.

4He said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and will multiply you. I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession.’

5“Now, as for your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, they will be mine. Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine just as Reuben and Simeon are.

6Any children that you father after them will be yours; they will be listed under the names of their brothers in their inheritance.

7But as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, Rachel died – to my sorrow – in the land of Canaan. It happened along the way, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there on the way to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).