Joseph Visits Jacob; The Adoption Declared

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And it cometh to pass, after these things, that one saith to Joseph, `Lo, thy father is sick;' and he taketh his two sons with him, Manasseh and Ephraim.

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And one declareth to Jacob, and saith, `Lo, thy son Joseph is coming unto thee;' and Israel doth strengthen himself, and sit upon the bed.

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And Jacob saith unto Joseph, `God Almighty hath appeared unto me, in Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blesseth me,

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and saith unto me, Lo, I am making thee fruitful, and have multiplied thee, and given thee for an assembly of peoples, and given this land to thy seed after thee, a possession age-during.

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`And now, thy two sons, who are born to thee in the land of Egypt, before my coming unto thee to Egypt, mine they are ; Ephraim and Manasseh, as Reuben and Simeon they are mine;

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and thy family which thou hast begotten after them are thine; by the name of their brethren they are called in their inheritance.

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`And I--in my coming in from Padan- Aram Rachel hath died by me in the land of Canaan, in the way, while yet a kibrath of land to enter Ephrata, and I bury her there in the way of Ephrata, which is Bethlehem.'

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And Israel seeth the sons of Joseph, and saith, `Who are these?'

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and Joseph saith unto his father, `They are my sons, whom God hath given to me in this place ;' and he saith, `Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I bless them.'

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And the eyes of Israel have been heavy from age, he is unable to see; and he bringeth them nigh unto him, and he kisseth them, and cleaveth to them;

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and Israel saith unto Joseph, `To see thy face I had not thought, and lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.'

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