Jacob is ill (sick, unto death)

Joseph and his children go

Summoned his strength and sat up in bed

Jacob recounts God Almighty meeting him

Appeared at Luz in Canaan

Blessed him

‘I will make you fruitful and multiply you’

‘I will make of you a company of peoples’

‘I will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession’ 

Leaves out any reference that God gave to Him personally (Name Change, King from You)

Focus on the Future, Focus on God and His Blessings to His people

Not going to be in Egypt Forever (Sojourning as he always has)

Your sons are mine

Your two sons born in Egypt are mine

Shall be mine as Reuben and Simeon (legitimate sons)

They are heirs with land inheritance

Joseph is left out of a land inheritance (why?)

The children that you fathered after them are shall be yours (no other children identified)

Recounts the events of Rachel’s death

Jacob ‘sees’ Joseph’s son

Have to be in their 20s by now

Asks whose they are

Joseph replies they are mine (How does this follow what happened in the previous verses)

Jacob wants to bless them

Jacob saw above and now his eyes are dim so that he could not see

Jacob kisses and embraces Joseph’s sons

Jacob is grateful

Sees his son (Joseph)

Sees his grandsons (Joseph)

Israel Switched His Hand from where Joseph placed his sons

Ephraim (youngest) under the right hand

Manasseh (oldest) under the left hand

He blessed Joseph

The Blessor (Personal God)

God in whom my fathers walked (Abraham and Isaac)

My Shepherd all  my life even until now

The angel who redeemed me from all evil

The Blessing

Who - These Boys (Ephraim and Manasseh) - represent Joseph now

Let my name be carried on

Let the name of my fathers be carried on as well

Let them grow into a multitude

Bless (barak)

God endues with special power (God to Joseph’s Sons)

To Declare the object be endued with special power (Jacob to Joseph's Sons)

Joseph Noticed the Switch

Joseph Saw the hands ‘in the reverse’

It Displeased Him

Wanted to move his father’s hands

Jacob Refused

Jacob knew what he was doing (I know, my son, I know)

Manasseh (the oldest) will still become great and become a people

Ephraim (the youngest) will become greater and a multitude of nations

In doing this he put Ephraim before Manasseh

Jacob’s gift to Joseph

Knows his death is near

Tells Joseph that God will be with you

Tells Joseph that God will bring him again to the land of his fathers

Given something special to Joseph, not for his brothers

A mountain slope

Taken from the Amorites with his sword and his bow