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Genesis 41:51

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh  and said, ‘God has made me forget all my hardship and my whole family.’

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Let him drink so that he can forget his poverty and remember his trouble no more.


His firstborn bull has   splendour, and horns like   those of a wild ox; he gores all the peoples with them to the ends of the earth. Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.


After them, seven years of famine will take place, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten. The famine will devastate the land.


Whoever asks for a blessing in the land will ask for a blessing by the God of truth, and whoever swears in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the former troubles will be forgotten and hidden from my sight.


For I will not accuse you for ever, and I will not always be angry; for then the spirit would grow weak before me, even the breath, which I have made.


Your two sons  born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt are now mine.  Ephraim and Manasseh belong to me just as Reuben and Simeon do.


Two sons were born to Joseph before the years of famine arrived.  Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest at On, bore them to him.


And the second son he named Ephraim  and said, ‘God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.’


Some time after this, Joseph was told, ‘Your father is weaker.’ So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.


The descendants of Joseph became two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. No portion of the land was given to the Levites except cities to live in, along with pasturelands for their cattle and livestock.


This was the land allotted for the tribe of Manasseh  as Joseph’s firstborn. Gilead and Bashan were given to Machir, the firstborn of Manasseh and the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war.


After some time,  Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel,  because she said, ‘I requested him from the Lord.’


Joseph’s descendants by their clans from Manasseh and Ephraim:


For you will forget your suffering, recalling it only as water that has flowed by.





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