Genesis 41:51 “Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget a…”

Genesis 41:51

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And Ioseph called the name of the first borne Manasseh: for God, said he, hath made me forget all my labour and al my fathers houshold.

Darby Translation

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh — For God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

Young's Literal Translation

and Joseph calleth the name of the first-born Manasseh: 'for, God hath made me to forget all my labour, and all the house of my father;'

Bible in Basic English

And to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house.

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Cross references

“called”

Deuteronomy 33:17 Genesis 48:5 Genesis 48:18–20 Genesis 48:13 Genesis 48:14

Deuteronomy 33:17 · BSB

His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.…

Genesis 48:5 · BSB

And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

Genesis 48:18–20 · BSB

“Not so, my father!” Joseph said. “This one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”

Genesis 48:13 · BSB

And Joseph took both of them—with Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand—and brought them close to him.

Genesis 48:14 · BSB

But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

“Manasseh”

Genesis 41:30 Psalm 45:10 Isaiah 57:16

Genesis 41:30 · BSB

but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.

Psalm 45:10 · BSB

Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,

Isaiah 57:16 · BSB

For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me— the breath of life I have made.

“forget”

Psalm 30:5 Proverbs 31:7 Psalm 30:11 Isaiah 65:16

Psalm 30:5 · BSB

For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Proverbs 31:7 · BSB

Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Psalm 30:11 · BSB

You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

Isaiah 65:16 · BSB

Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth, and whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the former troubles will be forgotten and hidden from My sight.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

50Before the years of famine arrived, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

52And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Read Genesis 41