Genesis 48:2-4

GOD’S WORD Translation

² When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph is here to see you,” Israel gathered his strength and sat up in bed.

³ Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in Canaan and blessed me. ⁴ He said to me, ‘I will make you fertile and increase the number of your descendants so that you will become a community of people. I will give this land to your descendants as a permanent possession.’