<p class="poetry">Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On,<n id="1" /> bore them to him.p>

Counting the two sons<n id="1" /> of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.<n id="2" />p>

Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him,<n id="1" /> he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.p>

<p class="bodytext">Israel said to Joseph, &#8220;Now let me die since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Joseph went and told Pharaoh, &#8220;My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land ofp> <p class="bodytext">Canaan. They are now<n id="1" /> in the land of Goshen.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory<n id="1" /> in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses,<n id="2" /> just as Pharaoh had commanded.

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father&#8217;s household, according to the number of their little children.p>

<p class="bodytext">Joseph said to the people, &#8220;Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate<n id="1" /> the land.

<t /><p class="bodytext">After these things Joseph was told,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Your father is weakening.&#8221; So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

When Jacob was told,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Your son Joseph has just<n id="2" /> come to you,&#8221; Israel regained strength and sat up on his bed.

Jacob said to Joseph, &#8220;The sovereign God<n id="1" /> appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.

Joseph said to his father, &#8220;They are the<n id="1" /> sons God has given me in this place.&#8221; His father<n id="2" /> said, &#8220;Bring them to me so I may bless them.&#8221;<n id="3" />

Israel said to Joseph, &#8220;I never expected<n id="1" /> to see you<n id="2" /> again, but now God has allowed me to see your children<n id="3" /> too.&#8221;p>

Joseph positioned them;<n id="1" /> he put Ephraim on his right hand across from Israel&#8217;s left hand, and Manasseh on his left hand across from Israel&#8217;s right hand. Then Joseph brought them closer to his father.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">Then he blessed Joseph and said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;May the God before whom my fathersp> <p class="poetry">Abraham and Isaac walked &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the God who has been my shepherd<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">all my life long to this day,p>

Joseph said to his father, &#8220;Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Israel said to Joseph, &#8220;I am about to die, but God will be with you<n id="1" /> and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

<p class="poetry">The blessings of your father are greaterp> <p class="poetry">than<n id="1" /> the blessings of the eternal mountains<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">or the desirable things of the age-old hills.p> <p class="poetry">They will be on the head of Josephp> <p class="poetry">and on the brow of the prince of his brothers.<n id="3" />p>

Joseph instructed the physicians in his service<n id="1" /> to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.

<p class="bodytext">So Joseph went up to bury his father; all Pharaoh&#8217;s officials went with him &#8211; the senior courtiers<n id="1" /> of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,