After these deades/ tyd[~i]ges were brought vnto Ioseph/ that his father was seke. And he toke with him his ij. sõnes/ 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/ ãd 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 y^e vnto an euerlastinge possession. Now therfore thy .ij. sõnes Manasses ãd Ephraim which were borne vnto the before I came to the/ in to Egipte/ shalbe myne: euen as Ruben and Simeõ 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 Canaã/ by the waye: when I had but a feldes brede to goo vnto Ephrat. And I buried her there in y^e 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/ ãd he kyssed th[~e] 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 al so 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 ãd 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 hãde 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 frõ all euyll/ blesse these laddes: y^t they maye be called after my name/ and after my father Abraham and Isaac/ and that they maye growe ãd multiplie apõ the erth.