After these deades / tyd&ibar;ges were brought vnto Ioseph: that his father was seke. And he toke with him his ij. s&obar;nes / Manasses and Ephraim. Then was it sayde vnto Iacob: beholde / thy sonne Ioseph commeth vnto the. And Israel toke his strength vnto him / and satt vp on the bedd / and sayde vnto Ioseph: God all mightie appeared vnto me at lus in the lande of Canaan / &abar;d blessed me / and sayde vnto me: beholde / I will make the growe and will multiplye the / and will make a great nombre of people of the / and will geue this lande vnto the and vnto thy seed after þe; vnto an euerlastinge possession. Now therfore thy .ij. s&obar;nes Manasses &abar;d Ephraim which were borne vnto the before I came to the / in to Egipte / shalbe myne: euen as Ruben and Sime&obar; shall they be vnto me. And the childern which thou getest after them / shalbe thyne awne: but shalbe called with the names of their brethern in their enheritaunces.

And after I came from Mesopotamia / Rahel dyed apon my hande in the lande of Cana&abar; / by the waye: when I had but a feldes brede

to goo vnto Ephrat. And I buried her there in þe; waye to Ephrat which is now called Bethlehem.

And Israel behelde Iosephes sonnes ∧ sayde: what are these? And Ioseph sayde vnto his father: they are my sonnes / which God hath geuen me here. And he sayde: brynge them to me / and let me blesse them. And the eyes of Israell were dymme for age / so that he coude not see. And he broughte them to him / &abar;d he kyssed th&ebar; and embraced them. And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph: I had not thoughte to haue sene thy face / and yet loo / God hath shewed it me and also thy seed. And Ioseph toke them awaye from his lappe / and they fell on the grounde before him.

Than toke Ioseph them both: Ephraim in his ryghte hande towarde Israels left hande &abar;d Manasses in his left hande / towarde Israels ryghte hande / and brought them vnto him. And Israel stretched out his righte hande and layde it apon Ephraims head which was the yonger / and his lyft h&abar;de apon Manasses heed / crossinge his handes / for manasses was the elder. And he blessed Ioseph saynge: God before whome my fathers Abraham and Isaac dyd walke / and the God which hath fedd me all my life longe vnto this daye / And the angell which hath delyuered me fr&obar; all euyll / blesse these laddes: þt; they maye be called after my name / and after my father Abraham and Isaac / and that they maye growe &abar;d multiplie ap&obar;

the erth.

When Ioseph sawe that his father layd his ryghte hande apon the heade of Ephraim / it displeased him. And he lifte vpp his fathers h&abar;de / to haue removed it from Ephraims head vnto Manasses head / and sayde vnto his father: Not so my father / for this is the eldest. Put thy right hande apon his head. And his father wold not / but sayde: I knowe it well my sonne / I knowe it well. He shalbe also a people &abar;d shalbe great. But of a troth his yonger brother shalbe greatter than he / and his seed shall be full of people. And he blessed them sainge. At the ensample of these / the Israelites shall blesse and saye: God make the as Ephraim and as Manasses. Thus sett he Ephraim before Manasses.

And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph: beholde / I dye. And god shalbe with you and bringe you agayne vnto the land of youre fathers. Moreouer I geue vnto the / a porcyon of lande aboue thy brethern / which I gatt out of the handes of the Amorites with my swerde and wyth my bowe.

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