Genesis 41:51

New American Bible - revised edition

Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh, meaning, “God has made me forget entirely my troubles and my father’s house”;

Cross References

Genesis 41:30

but seven years of famine will rise up after them, when all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. When the famine has exhausted the land,

Genesis 41:50

Before the famine years set in, Joseph became the father of two sons, borne to him by Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis.

Genesis 41:52

and the second he named Ephraim, meaning, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 48:1

Some time afterward, Joseph was informed, “Your father is failing.” So he took along with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 48:5

So now your two sons who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I joined you here, shall be mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine as much as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

Job 11:16

For then you shall forget your misery, like water that has ebbed away you shall regard it.

Psalm 30:11

Hear, O Lord, have mercy on me; Lord, be my helper.”

Psalm 30:5

Sing praise to the Lord, you faithful; give thanks to his holy memory.

Psalm 45:10

Daughters of kings are your lovely wives; a princess arrayed in Ophir’s gold comes to stand at your right hand.

Proverbs 31:7

When they drink, they will forget their misery, and think no more of their troubles.

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not accuse forever, nor always be angry; For without me their spirit fails, the life breath that I have given.

Isaiah 65:16

Whoever invokes a blessing in the land shall bless by the God of truth; Whoever takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth; For the hardships of the past shall be forgotten and hidden from my eyes.

Numbers 26:28

The sons of Joseph were Manasseh and Ephraim.

Deuteronomy 33:17

His firstborn bull, majesty is his! His horns are the horns of a wild ox; With them he gores the peoples, attacks the ends of the earth. These are the myriads of Ephraim, and these the thousands of Manasseh.

Joshua 14:4

the descendants of Joseph formed two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. But the Levites were given no share of the land except cities to live in, with their pasture lands for the herds and flocks.

Joshua 17:1

Now as for the lot that fell to the tribe of Manasseh as the firstborn of Joseph: since Manasseh’s eldest son, Machir, the father of Gilead, was a warrior, who had already obtained Gilead and Bashan,

1 Samuel 1:20

She conceived and, at the end of her pregnancy, bore a son whom she named Samuel. “Because I asked the Lord for him.”