# Genesis 48

> Lumin Translation

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Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he took his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, with him.
2. When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel gathered his strength and sat up in bed.
3. Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and he blessed me.
4. He said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land to your offspring after you as a permanent possession.’
5. Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you here in Egypt, are mine. Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are.
6. Any children born to you after them will be yours. In their inheritance they will be listed under the names of their brothers.
7. As for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died on the way in the land of Canaan, while we were still some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”
8. When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he asked, “Who are these?”
9. Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” Israel said, “Please bring them to me, so that I may bless them.”
10. Now Israel’s eyes were dim with age, and he could not see. So Joseph brought them close to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
11. Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face again, and now God has let me see your children too.”
12. Then Joseph removed them from Israel’s knees and bowed down with his face to the ground.
13. Joseph took both of them, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right, and brought them close to him.
14. But Israel reached out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, though he was the younger, and he put his left hand on Manasseh’s head. He crossed his hands deliberately, even though Manasseh was the firstborn.
15. Then he blessed Joseph and said, “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
16. the angel who has redeemed me from all harm—may he bless these boys. May my name live on in them, and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude on the earth.”
17. When Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he was displeased. He took hold of his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
18. Joseph said to his father, “Not that way, my father! This one is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”
19. But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He too will become a people, and he too will become great. Yet his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a multitude of nations.”
20. So he blessed them that day and said, “By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying, ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.
21. Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.
22. And to you, above your brothers, I give one ridge of land, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”

## Nearby chapters

[Genesis 47](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/47.md)
[Genesis 49](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/49.md)

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