Genesis 48:1, 5
Genesis 48:1 NIV
Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him.
Genesis 48:5 NIV
“Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.





