There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,
Genesis 41:51 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Yosef called the name of the firstborn Menasheh, *For,* he said, *God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Joseph called the firstborn Manasseh [making to forget], For God, said he, has made me forget all my toil and hardship and all my father's house. American Standard Version (1901) And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: For, said he, God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house. Common English Bible Joseph named the oldest son Manasseh, “because,” he said, “God has helped me forget all of my troubles and everyone in my father’s household.” Catholic Public Domain Version And he called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, saying, "God has caused me to forget all my labors and the house of my father." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he called the name of the first born Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father's house. |
There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,
To Yosef were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenat, the daughter of Potiphera Kohen of On, bore to him.
The name of the second, he called Efrayim: *For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.*
It happened after these things, that someone said to Yosef, *Behold, your father is sick.* He took with him his two sons, Menasheh and Efrayim.
Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Efrayim and Menasheh, even as Re'uven and Shim`on, will be mine.
for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it as waters that are passed away.
You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,
For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.
so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.
The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he shall push the peoples all of them, [even] the ends of the earth: They are the ten thousands of Efrayim. They are the thousands of Menasheh.
For the children of Yosef were two tribes, Menasheh and Efrayim: and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of it for their livestock and for their substance.
[This] was the lot for the tribe of Menasheh; for he was the firstborn of Yosef. As for Makhir the firstborn of Menasheh, the father of Gil`ad, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gil`ad and Bashan.
It happened, when the time was come about, that Channah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Shemu'el, [saying], Because I have asked him of the LORD.