Genesis 41:52

New Living Translation

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

Cross References

Genesis 17:6

I will make you extremely fruitful. Your descendants will become many nations, and kings will be among them!

Genesis 28:3

May God Almighty bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations!

Genesis 41:51

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

Genesis 41:53

At last the seven years of bumper crops throughout the land of Egypt came to an end.

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 48:14

But Jacob crossed his arms as he reached out to lay his hands on the boys’ heads. He put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, though he was the younger boy, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, though he was the firstborn.

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.

Genesis 49:22

“Joseph is the foal of a wild donkey, the foal of a wild donkey at a spring— one of the wild donkeys on the ridge.

Genesis 50:23

He lived to see three generations of descendants of his son Ephraim, and he lived to see the birth of the children of Manasseh’s son Makir, whom he claimed as his own.

Amos 6:6

You drink wine by the bowlful and perfume yourselves with fragrant lotions. You care nothing about the ruin of your nation.

Numbers 26:28

Two clans were descended from Joseph through Manasseh and Ephraim.

Acts 7:10

and rescued him from all his troubles. And God gave him favor before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. God also gave Joseph unusual wisdom, so that Pharaoh appointed him governor over all of Egypt and put him in charge of the palace.

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 16:4

This was the homeland allocated to the families of Joseph’s sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

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.”