3 Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in Canaan and blessed me.
4 He 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.
6 Any other children you have after them will be yours. They will inherit the land listed under their brothers’ names.
7 As 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).
8 When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he asked, “Who are they?”
9 “They are my sons, whom God has given me here in Egypt,” Joseph answered his father.Then Israel said, “Please bring them to me so that I may bless them.”