1 After these things, it was told Joseph that his father was sick: and he set out to go to him, taking his two sons Manasses and Ephraim.
2 And it was told the old man: Behold I thy son Joseph cometh to thee. And being strengthened he sat on his bed.
3 And when Joseph was come in to him, he said: God Almighty appeared to me at Lute, which is in the land of Chanaan: and he blessed me,
4 And he said: I will cause thee to increase and multiply, and I will make of thee a multitude of people: and I will give this land to thee, and to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
5 So thy two sons who were born to thee in the land of Egypt before I came hither to thee, shall be mine: Ephraim and Manasses shall be reputed to me as Ruben and Simeon.