Genesis 48:12-14

The Voice

¹² Then Joseph moved the boys aside—they had been at his father’s knees—and he bowed down low with his face to the ground. ¹³ Then Joseph took his sons and brought them near to his father. He took his younger son Ephraim in his right hand and put him to the left hand of Israel, and he took Manasseh in his left hand and put him to the right hand of Israel. ¹⁴ But Israel stretched out his hands and crossed his arms, laying his right hand on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, the firstborn.