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Genesis 41:51

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Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”

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Genesis 41:51 in other translations

And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: For, said he, God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.

Genesis 41:51 · American Standard Version

Genesis 41:51 in context

  1. 49Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
  2. 50To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
  3. 51Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”
  4. 52The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
  5. 53The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.