Genesis 48:18-20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁸ And he said to his father: It should not be so, my father: for this is the firstborn, put thy right hand upon his head.

¹⁹ But he refusing, said: I know, my son, I know: and this also shall become peoples, and shall be multiplied: but this younger brother shall be greater than he: and his seed shall grow into nations.

²⁰ And he blessed them at that time, saying: In thee shall Israel be blessed, and it shall be said: God do to thee as to Ephraim, and as to Manasses. And he set Ephraim before Manasses.