1 Some time later Joseph was told, "Your father is sick." So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him.
2 Jacob was told, "Your son Joseph has come to you." So Israel became stronger and sat up in bed.
3 Jacob said to Joseph, "The Mighty God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan. He blessed me there.
4 He said to me, 'I am going to give you children. I will increase your numbers. I will make you a community of nations. And I will give this land to your children after you. It will belong to them forever.'
5 "Now then, two sons were born to you in Egypt. It happened before I came to you here. They will be counted as my own sons. Ephraim and Manasseh will belong to me, in the same way that Reuben and Simeon belong to me.
6 "Any children who are born to you after them will belong to you. Any territory they receive will come from the land that is given to Ephraim and Manasseh.