After these events, someone said to Yoseif, Behold your father is [lying] ill. He took his two sons with him, Menasheh and Ephraim.

It was told to Yaakov, saying, Behold, your son, Yoseif, has come to you. Yisrael gathered his strength and sat up in bed.

Yaakov said to Yoseif, Almighty Shaddai appeared [became revealed] to me in Luz, in the land of Canaan, and He blessed me.

He said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful and numerous, and I will make you into an assembly of nations [tribes]. I will give this land to your descendants after you for an everlasting possession.

And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you to Egypt, are mine. Ephraim and Menasheh, like Reuvein and Shimon, shall be mine [before me].

But your progeny that will be born after them shall be yours. They shall be called by their brother’s name with regard to their inheritance.

And I, when I came from Padan, Rochel died unto me in the land of Canaan, on the road, when there was yet a stretch of land, before coming to Ephros. I buried her there on the road to Ephros, which is Beis Lechem.

Yisrael saw Yoseif’s sons, and he said, Who are these?

Yoseif said to his father, These are my sons, whom Elohim has given me in this [place] [here]. He [Yaakov] said, Please Take [Now bring] them [near] to me, and I will bless them.

Yisrael’s eyes were heavy with age, and he could not see. He [Yoseif] brought them near to him, and he kissed them and hugged them.

Yisrael said to Yoseif, I have never thought to see your face, and behold Elohim has even allowed me to see your offspring.

Yoseif brought them out from between his knees [before him], and he prostrated himself with his face to the ground.

Yoseif took the two [of them]—Ephraim in his right [hand], toward Yisrael’s left, and Menasheh in his left, toward Yisrael’s right—and he brought them near to him.

Yisrael stretched out his right [hand] and placed it on the head of Ephraim, [although] he was the younger, and his left [hand] on the head of Menasheh. He deliberately placed his hands so, even though Menasheh was the firstborn.

He blessed Yoseif and said, Elohim before whom my fathers walked [served], Avraham, and Yitzchok, Elohim who was my shepherd [sustainer] from my inception until this day—

The Angel who redeemed me from all evil, should bless the lads, and let my name be called on them, together with the name of my fathers, Avraham and Yitzchok. May they be like fish [of the sea], multiplying within [amongst people upon] the land.

Yoseif saw that his father placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, and it was bad in his eyes. He held up his fathers hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head [and to place it] on Menasheh’s head.

Yoseif said to his father, Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn, place your right hand on his head.

His father refused, and he said, I know my son, I know. He too will become a people, he too will become great; however his younger brother will be greater than he, and [the fame] of his descendants will fill [rule] the nations.

He blessed them on that day saying: Through you shall [the People of] Israel bless saying; May Elohim make you as Ephraim and Menasheh. He placed Ephraim ahead of Menasheh.

Yisrael said to Yoseif, Behold I am dying. [The Word of] Elohim will be with you [your support], and He will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

I have given you one share more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword [prayer] and with my bow [plea].