46:20 Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, 1 bore them to him.
48:1 After these things Joseph was told, 2 “Your father is weakening.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.
1 sn On is another name for the city of Heliopolis.
2 tn Heb “and one said.” With no expressed subject in the Hebrew text, the verb can be translated with the passive voice.
3 tn Heb “days.”
4 sn On the expression put your hand under my thigh see Gen 24:2.
5 tn Or “deal with me in faithful love.”
4 tn Heb “and Joseph wept when they spoke to him.”