And he blessed Ioseph saying: God before whom my fathers
Abraham and Isaac did walk, and the God which hath fed me all my
life long unto this day; And the angel which hath delivered me
from all evil, bless these lads: that they may be called after my
name, and after my father Abraham and Isaac, and that they may
grow and multiply upon the earth. When Ioseph saw that his father
laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him.
And he lift up his father's hand, to have removed it from
Ephraim's head unto Manasse's head, and said unto his father: Not
so my father, for this is the eldest. Put thy right hand upon his
head. And his father would not, but said: I know it well my son, I
know it well. He shall be also a people and shall be great. But of
a troth his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed
shall be full of people. And he blessed them saying: At the
example of these, the Israelites shall bless and say: God make
thee as Ephraim and as Manasse. Thus set he Ephraim before
Manasse. And Israel said unto Ioseph: behold, I die. And God shall
be with you and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
Moreover I give unto thee, a portion of land above thy brethren
which I gat out of the hands of the Amorites with my sword and
with my bow.
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