Joseph Visits Jacob; The Adoption Declared

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After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

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Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.

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Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

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and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.’

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Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.

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Your issue, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

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As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).”

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Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, “Who are these?”

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Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.”

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Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

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Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your seed also.”

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