Genesis 48:5-7

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⁵ Your two sons, who were born here in Egypt before I came, will be counted as my own sons. Ephraim and Manasseh will be my sons just as Reuben and Simeon are my sons [^Chis two oldest children]. ⁶ But if you have other children, they will be your own, and ·their land will be part of the land given to Ephraim and Manasseh [^Lthey will be recorded according to the name of their brothers in regard to their inheritance]. ⁷ When I came from northwestern Mesopotamia [^LPaddan], Rachel died in the land of Canaan, as we were traveling toward Ephrath [35:16, 19]. This made me very sad, and I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath.” (Today Ephrath is Bethlehem.)