6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
6 Any children born to you after them will be yours; in the territory they inherit they will be reckoned under the names of their brothers.
6 And the children that you fathered after them shall be yours. They shall be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
6 But any children born after them are yours; they will come after their brothers in matters of inheritance.
6 Your offspring whom you beget after them shall be yours; they will be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
6 But any children born to you in the future will be your own, and they will inherit land within the territories of their brothers Ephraim and Manasseh.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Genesis 48:6
Commentary on Genesis 48:1-7
(Read Genesis 48:1-7)
The death-beds of believers, with the prayers and counsels of dying persons, are suited to make serious impressions upon the young, the gay, and the prosperous: we shall do well to take children on such occasions, when it can be done properly. If the Lord please, it is very desirable to bear our dying testimony to his truth, to his faithfulness, and the pleasantness of his ways. And one would wish so to live, as to give energy and weight to our dying exhortations. All true believers are blessed at their death, but all do not depart equally full of spiritual consolations. Jacob adopted Joseph's two sons. Let them not succeed their father, in his power and grandeur in Egypt; but let them succeed in the inheritance of the promise made to Abraham. Thus the aged dying patriarch teaches these young persons to take their lot with the people of God. He appoints each of them to be the head of a tribe. Those are worthy of double honour, who, through God's grace, break through the temptations of worldly wealth and preferment, to embrace religion in disgrace and poverty. Jacob will have Ephraim and Manasseh to know, that it is better to be low, and in the church, than high, and out of it.