Then Jacob asked God to be good to Joseph and his sons. Jacob said,
“God, my grand-father Abraham always lived your way, and so did my father Isaac.
God, you took care of me all my life, and you still take care of me today.
You are the one that saved me and set me free from all the bad things that happened to me.
So now, I’m asking you to be good to these 2 boys, Ephraim and Manasseh.
Let them be just like my own sons, and give them those good things that you promised to me, and to my grand-father Abraham, and to my father Isaac.
Let them have lots of kids and grand-kids, so that their families will become a really big mob here on earth.”