20 So he blessed them that day, putting Ephraim before Manasseh when he said, “The nation Israel will invoke blessings by you, saying, ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’”

21 Israel said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.(A) 22 Over and above what I am giving your brothers, I am giving you the one mountain slope[a] that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 48:22 Or Shechem, Joseph’s burial place; lit one shoulder

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