Genesis 41:51

New Living Translation

Joseph named his older son Manasseh, for he said, “God has made me forget all my troubles and everyone in my father’s family.”

Cross References

Genesis 41:30

But afterward there will be seven years of famine so great that all the prosperity will be forgotten in Egypt. Famine will destroy the land.

Genesis 41:50

During this time, before the first of the famine years, two sons were born to Joseph and his wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On.

Genesis 41:52

Joseph named his second son Ephraim, for he said, “God has made me fruitful in this land of my grief.”

Genesis 48:1

One day not long after this, word came to Joseph, “Your father is failing rapidly.” So Joseph went to visit his father, and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 48:5

“Now I am claiming as my own sons these two boys of yours, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born here in the land of Egypt before I arrived. They will be my sons, just as Reuben and Simeon are.

Job 11:16

You will forget your misery; it will be like water flowing away.

Psalm 30:11

You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy,

Psalm 30:5

For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime! Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.

Psalm 45:10

Listen to me, O royal daughter; take to heart what I say. Forget your people and your family far away.

Proverbs 31:7

Let them drink to forget their poverty and remember their troubles no more.

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not fight against you forever; I will not always be angry. If I were, all people would pass away— all the souls I have made.

Isaiah 65:16

All who invoke a blessing or take an oath will do so by the God of truth. For I will put aside my anger and forget the evil of earlier days.

Numbers 26:28

Two clans were descended from Joseph through Manasseh and Ephraim.

Deuteronomy 33:17

Joseph has the majesty of a young bull; he has the horns of a wild ox. He will gore distant nations, even to the ends of the earth. This is my blessing for the multitudes of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.”

Joshua 14:4

The descendants of Joseph had become two separate tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim. And the Levites were given no land at all, only towns to live in with surrounding pasturelands for their livestock and all their possessions.

Joshua 17:1

The next allotment of land was given to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the descendants of Joseph’s older son. Makir, the firstborn son of Manasseh, was the father of Gilead. Because his descendants were experienced soldiers, the regions of Gilead and Bashan on the east side of the Jordan had already been given to them.

1 Samuel 1:20

and in due time she gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, for she said, “I asked the Lord for him.”