And when they said to Jacob, Your son Joseph is coming to see you: then Israel, getting all his strength together, had himself lifted up in his bed.

And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are.

And as for me, when I came from Paddan, death overtook Rachel on the way, when we were still some distance from Ephrath; and I put her to rest there on the road to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.

And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the older; put your right hand on his head.

Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers.

And I have given you more than your brothers, even Shechem as your heritage, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.

Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?

Knotting his ass's cord to the vine, and his young ass to the best vine; washing his robe in wine, and his clothing in the blood of grapes:

Issachar is a strong ass stretched out among the flocks:

Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

Asher's bread is fat; he gives delicate food for kings.

Naphtali is a roe let loose, giving fair young ones.

Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain;

Benjamin is a wolf, searching for meat: in the morning he takes his food, and in the evening he makes division of what he has taken.

And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him.

And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan.

So his sons did as he had given them orders to do:

Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him.

So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying,

You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping.

As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.