Study Desk

Now it came about after these things that ^(F1)Joseph was told, "Behold, your father is sick." So he took his two sons ^(C1)Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

When ^(F1)it was told to Jacob, "Behold, your son Joseph has come to you," Israel ^(F2)collected his strength and sat ^(F3)up in the bed.

Then Jacob said to Joseph, "^(F1)(C1)God Almighty appeared to me at ^(C2)Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,

and He said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and numerous, and I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your ^(F1)descendants after you as ^(C1)an everlasting possession.'

"Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; ^(C1)Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as ^(C2)Reuben and Simeon are.

"But your children that you have fathered after them shall be yours; they shall be called by the ^(F1)names of their brothers in their inheritance.

"Now as for me, when I came from ^(C1)Paddan, ^(C2)Rachel died, ^(F1)to my sorrow, in the land of Canaan on the journey, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath. I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)."

When Israel ^(C1)saw Joseph's sons, he said, "Who are these?"

And Joseph said to his father, "^(C1)They are my sons, whom God has given me here." So he said, "Bring them to me, please, so that ^(C2)I may bless them."