Joseph put Ephraim at Jacob's left and Manasseh at his right.
He said, “God has made me forget all my sufferings and all my father's family”; so he named his first son Manasseh.
In Egypt Joseph had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, by Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, a priest in Heliopolis.
Then Joseph took them from Jacob's lap and bowed down before him with his face to the ground.
But Jacob crossed his hands, and put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, even though he was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, who was the older.
The tribes of Joseph, who was the father of two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
He will put the righteous people at his right and the others at his left.