I made a boo boo but nobody even noticed. Not Genesis chapter 11, as I quoted... but should be Genesis chapter 48....
Genesis 48:3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Caanan, and blessed me,
Genesis 48:4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people, and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
(They were in Egypt at the time, later you will find out the boundaries of the new kingdom on earth)
Genesis 48:5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine: as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
(so Jacob is classing his two grandsons as his own - adopting them into his family)
48:6 And thy issue, which thou begetest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren (12 tribes?) in their inheritance.
You can read on and see that Israel had his hand crossed over on the two grandsons, and blessed the younger brother (Ephraim) over the older (Mannessah)
And Joseph tried to correct his father, to say bless Manessah the older, and his father refused...
Genesis 48:19 And his father refused, and said I know it, my son, I know it: he also (Manasseh) he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother (Ephraim) shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.(gentiles)
Genesis 48:20 And he blessed them that day saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying God make thee as Ephraim before Manessah.
Genesis 48:21 And Israel said to Joseph, behold, I die; but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.