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And it came to pass after these things,
that one told Joseph,
Behold,
thy father is sick:
and he took with him his two sons,
Manasseh and Ephraim.

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And one told Jacob,
and said,
Behold,
thy son Joseph cometh unto thee:
and Israel strengthened himself,
and sat upon the bed.

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And Jacob said unto Joseph,
God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan,
and blessed me,

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And said unto me,
Behold,
I will make thee fruitful,
and multiply thee,
and I will make of thee a multitude of people;
and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

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And now thy two sons,
Ephraim and Manasseh,
which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt,
are mine;
as Reuben and Simeon,
they shall be mine.

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And thy issue,
which thou begettest after them,
shall be thine,
and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

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And as for me,
when I came from Padan,
Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way,
when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath:
and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath;
the same is Bethlehem.

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And Israel beheld Joseph's sons,
and said,
Who are these?

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And Joseph said unto his father,
They are my sons,
whom God hath given me in this place.
And he said,
Bring them,
I pray thee,
unto me,
and I will bless them.

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Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age,
so that he could not see.
And he brought them near unto him;
and he kissed them,
and embraced them.

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And Israel said unto Joseph,
I had not thought to see thy face:
and,
lo,
God hath shewed me also thy seed.

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And Joseph brought them out from between his knees,
and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

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And Joseph took them both,
Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand,
and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand,
and brought them near unto him.

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And Israel stretched out his right hand,
and laid it upon Ephraim's head,
who was the younger,
and his left hand upon Manasseh's head,
guiding his hands wittingly;
for Manasseh was the firstborn.

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And he blessed Joseph,
and said,
God,
before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk,
the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

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The Angel which redeemed me from all evil,
bless the lads;
and let my name be named on them,
and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

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And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim,
it displeased him:
and he held up his father's hand,
to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

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And Joseph said unto his father,
Not so,
my father:
for this is the firstborn;
put thy right hand upon his head.

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And his father refused,
and said,
I know it,
my son,
I know it:
he also shall become a people,
and he also shall be great:
but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he,
and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

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And he blessed them that day,
saying,
In thee shall Israel bless,
saying,
God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh:
and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

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And Israel said unto Joseph,
Behold,
I die:
but God shall be with you,
and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

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Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren,
which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.