5 Therefore, your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came here to you, will be mine. Ephraim and Manasseh will be treated by me just like Reuben and Simeon.
6 But the remainder, whom you will conceive after them, will be yours, and they will be called by the name of their brothers among their possessions.
7 As for me, when I came from Mesopotamia, Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the very journey, and it was springtime. And I entered Ephrath and buried her next to the way of Ephrath, which by another name is called Bethlehem.'
8 Then, seeing his sons, he said to him: 'Who are these?'
9 He responded, 'They are my sons, whom God gave to me as a gift in this place.' 'Bring them to me,' he said, 'so that I may bless them.'
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