Genesis 48:4-6

International Standard Version

⁴ He told me, ‘Pay attention! I’m going to make you fruitful and numerous. I’m going to build you into a vast nation of people and then I’ll give this land to your descendants^[a] for an eternal possession.’ ⁵ You have two sons who were born to you in Egypt before I came to be with you, whom I now take as my own. Ephraim and Manasseh are mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are. ⁶ Your descendants^[b] are to be reckoned as yours, but are to be referred to among the names of their brothers in their respective^[c] inheritances.