Genesis 41:51

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

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

50To Joseph [May he add] were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

52The name of the second, he called Ephraim [Fruit]: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.” (4)

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Cross References

Genesis 41:30There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery]. The famine will consume the land,

Genesis 48:13Joseph [May he add] took them both, Ephraim [Fruit] in his right hand toward Israel [God prevails]’s left hand, and Manasseh [Causing to forget] in his left hand toward Israel [God prevails]’s right hand, and brought them near to him.

Numbers 26:28The sons of Joseph [May he add] after their families: Manasseh [Causing to forget] and Ephraim [Fruit].

Psalms 30:11You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. 2 You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness, 2

Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:47-57

The Famine in Egypt and Canaan. ( b. c. 1706.) 46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. 47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. 48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. 49 And Joseph gathered… Read the whole commentary →

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