1 Some time later Joseph learned that his father was very sick, so he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim and went to his father.
2 When Joseph arrived, someone told Jacob, “Your son Joseph has come to see you.” Jacob was weak, so he used all his strength and sat up on his bed.
3 Then Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me there.
4 He said to me, ‘I will give you many children. I will make you the father of many peoples, and I will give your descendants this land forever.’