20 So he blessed them that day, saying,

“By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying,
(A)‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.’”

Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh. 21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am about to die, but (B)God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers. 22 Moreover, I have given to (C)you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope[a] that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 48:22 Or one portion of the land; Hebrew shekem, which sounds like the town and district called Shechem

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