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Genesis 41:51

Good News Translation

He said, “God has made me forget all my sufferings and all my father's family”; so he named his first son Manasseh.

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After that, there will be seven years of famine, and all the good years will be forgotten, because the famine will ruin the country.

Before the years of famine came, Joseph had two sons by Asenath.

He also said, “God has given me children in the land of my trouble”; so he named his second son Ephraim.

Some time later Joseph was told that his father was ill. So he took his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, and went to see Jacob.

Jacob continued, “Joseph, your two sons, who were born to you in Egypt before I came here, belong to me; Ephraim and Manasseh are just as much my sons as Reuben and Simeon.

Then all your troubles will fade from your memory, like floods that are past and remembered no more.

You have changed my sadness into a joyful dance; you have taken away my sorrow and surrounded me with joy.

His anger lasts only a moment, his goodness for a lifetime. Tears may flow in the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Bride of the king, listen to what I say— forget your people and your relatives.

Let them drink and forget their poverty and unhappiness.

I gave my people life, and I will not continue to accuse them or be angry with them forever.

Anyone in the land who asks for a blessing will ask to be blessed by the faithful God. Whoever takes an oath will swear by the name of the faithful God. The troubles of the past will be gone and forgotten.”

The tribes of Joseph, who was the father of two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Joseph has the strength of a bull, The horns of a wild ox. His horns are Manasseh's thousands And Ephraim's ten thousands. With them he gores the nations And pushes them to the ends of the earth.”

A part of the land west of the Jordan was assigned to some of the families descended from Joseph's older son Manasseh. Machir, the father of Gilead, was Manasseh's oldest son and a military hero, so Gilead and Bashan, east of the Jordan, were assigned to him.

So it was that she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, and explained, “I asked the Lord for him.”




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