right side, and on the left side of Israel, and Manasseh on the right side of his father Israel, which took his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim the younger brother, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh which was first born.  Then Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph and said:  God, in whose sight walked my fathers Abraham and Isaac, God that hath fed me from my youth unto this present day, the angel that hath kept me from all evil bless these children, and my name be called on them, and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and grow they into multitude upon earth.  Then Joseph seeing that his father set his right hand upon the head of Ephraim the younger brother took it heavily, and took his father’s hand and would have laid it on the head of Manasseh, and said to his father; Nay father, it is not convenient, that ye do, this is the first begotten son, set thy right hand on his head.  Which renied that and would not do so, but said:  I wot, my son, I wot what I do, and this son shall increase into peoples and multiply, but his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall grow into gentiles, and blessed them, saying that same time:  In thee shall be blessed Israel, and shall be said:  God make thee like to Ephraim and Manasseh.  And he said to Joseph his son:  Lo! now I die and God shall be with you, and shall reduce and bring you again into the land of your fathers; and I give to thee one part above thy brethren, which I gat and won from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow.  Then Jacob called his sons tofore him and said to them: 

Gather ye altogether tofore me, that I may show to you things that be to come, and hear your father Israel.  And there he told to each of them his condition singularly.  And when he had blessed his twelve sons he commanded them to bury him with his fathers in a double spelunke which is in the field of Ephron the Hittite against Mamre in the land of Canaan which Abraham bought.  And this said he gathered to him his feet and died.  Which anon as Joseph saw, he fell on his visage and kissed him.  He commanded to his masters of physic and medicines, which were his servants, that they should embalm the body of his father with sweet spices aromatic; which was all done, and then went they sorrowing him forty days.  The Egyptians wailed him seventy days, and when the wailing was past, Joseph did say to Pharaoh how he had sworn and promised to bury him in the land of Canaan.  To whom Pharaoh said:  Go and bury thy father like as thou hast sworn.  Which then took his father’s body and went, and with him were accompanied all the aged men of Pharaoh’s house, and the noblest men of birth of all the land of Egypt, the house of Joseph with his brethren, without the young children, flocks and beasts, which they left in the land of Goshen.  He had in his fellowship chariots, carts and horsemen, and was a great tourbe and company, and came over Jordan where as they hallowed the exequies by great wailing seven days long.