Genesis 48:18-20

New International Version - UK

¹⁸ Joseph said to him, ‘No, 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. Nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a group of nations.’ ²⁰ He blessed them that day and said,

So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.