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And he took from among his brothers five men and presented them to Pharaoh.

And Joseph brought in Jacob his father and presented him to Pharaoh and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

And Joseph supplied his father and his brothers and all his fathers household with wheat according to their families.

And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them; so the land became Pharaohs.

And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found grace in your sight, put your hand under my girdle, and I will make you to swear by the LORD that you will deal graciously and truly with me; do not bury me in Egypt;

And he said, Swear to me. And he swore to him. And Israel bowed himself upon the head of his staff.

AND it came to pass after these things that Joseph was told, Behold, your father is sick; and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons whom God has given me in this place. And he said, Bring them near me, and I will bless them.

And Joseph removed them from before his knees, and they bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.

Then Joseph took both of his sons, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israels left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israels right hand, and brought them near to him.

And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraims head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manassehs head; he changed the position of his hands wittingly, even though Manasseh was the first-born.

And Jacob blessed Joseph his son, saying, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked righteously, the God who has supplied my needs from my youth to this day,

And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; and he held up his fathers hand, to remove it from Ephraims head to Manassehs head.

And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-born; put your right hand upon his head.

But his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of peoples.

THEN Jacob called his sons and said to them, Gather yourselves together that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until the coming of the One to whom the sceptre belongs, to whom the Gentiles shall look forward.

He shall tie up his foal to the vine, and his asss colt to a branch; he shall bleach his garments with wine, and his robe with the juices of the grape;

His eyes shall be radiant with wine, and his teeth white with milk?