Genesis 41:51

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The first son was named Manasseh. [239] Joseph named him this because Joseph said, “God made me forget all of the troubles I have had, and everything about my home.”

Cross References

Genesis 41:30

But then there will be seven years of hunger. People in Egypt will forget how much food there had been in the past. This famine [237] will ruin the country.

Genesis 41:50

Joseph’s wife was Asenath. She was the daughter of Potiphera, the priest in the city of On. Before the first year of hunger came, Joseph and Asenath had two sons.

Genesis 41:52

Joseph named the second son Ephraim. [240] Joseph gave him this name because Joseph said, “I had great troubles, but God has made me successful in everything.”

Genesis 48:1

Some time later, Joseph learned that his father was very sick. So Joseph took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim and went to his father.

Genesis 48:5

And now you have two sons. These two sons were born here in the country of Egypt before I came. Your two sons Ephraim and Manasseh will be like my own sons. They will be the same as Reuben and Simeon to me.

Job 11:16

Then you could forget your trouble.\par Your troubles would be like\par water that has passed on by.\par

Psalm 30:11

\{I prayed and you helped me!\}\par You changed my crying into dancing.\par You took away my clothes of sadness.\par And you wrapped me in happiness.\par

Psalm 30:5

God was angry,\par so the decision was “death.”\par But he showed his love,\par and gave me “life.”\par At night,\par I lay crying.\par The next morning,\par I was happy and singing!\par

Psalm 45:10

My lady, {\cf2\super [277]} listen to me.\par Listen carefully and you will understand.\par Forget your people and your father’s family,\par

Proverbs 31:7

Let them drink and forget that they are poor. Let them forget all their troubles.

Isaiah 57:16

I will not continue fighting forever.\par I will not always be angry.\par If I continued to be angry,\par then man’s spirit\par —the life I gave them—\par would die in front of me.\par

Isaiah 65:16

People now ask blessings from the earth.\par \{But in the future,\} they will ask blessings\par from the faithful God.\par People now trust in the power of the earth\par when they make a promise.\par \{But in the future,\} they will trust\par in the faithful God.\par Why? Because the troubles in the past\par will all be forgotten.\par My people will never again\par remember those troubles.\par

Numbers 26:28

Joseph’s two sons were Manasseh and Ephraim. Each son became a family group with its own families.

Deuteronomy 33:17

Joseph is like a powerful bull. His two sons are like bull’s horns. They will attack other people and push them to the ends of the earth! Yes, Manasseh has thousands of people, and Ephraim has ten thousands.”

Joshua 14:4

{The twelve family groups were given their own land.} The sons of Joseph had divided into two family groups—Manasseh and Ephraim. {And each family group received some land. But} the people from the family group of Levi were not given any land. They were given only some towns to live in. {And these towns were in every family group’s land.} They were also given fields for their animals.

Joshua 17:1

Then land was given to the family group of Manasseh. Manasseh was Joseph’s first son. Manasseh’s first son was Makir, the father of Gilead. [61] Makir was a great soldier, so the areas of Gilead and Bashan were given to the Makir family.

1 Samuel 1:20

By that time the following year, Hannah had become pregnant and had a son. Hannah named her son Samuel. [11] She said, “His name is Samuel because I asked the Lord for him.”