Genesis 41:51
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51 Joseph named his older son Manasseh,[a] for he said, “God has made me forget all my troubles and everyone in my father’s family.”
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- 41:51 Manasseh sounds like a Hebrew term that means “causing to forget.”
Psalm 30:5
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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.
Proverbs 31:7
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7 Let them drink to forget their poverty
and remember their troubles no more.
Psalm 30:11
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11 You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing.
You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy,
Deuteronomy 33:17
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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.”
Genesis 41:30
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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.
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Isaiah 65:16
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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.
Isaiah 57:16
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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.
Psalm 45:10
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10 Listen to me, O royal daughter; take to heart what I say.
Forget your people and your family far away.
Genesis 48:18-20
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18 “No, my father,” he said. “This one is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”
19 But his father refused. “I know, my son; I know,” he replied. “Manasseh will also become a great people, but his younger brother will become even greater. And his descendants will become a multitude of nations.”
20 So Jacob blessed the boys that day with this blessing: “The people of Israel will use your names when they give a blessing. They will say, ‘May God make you as prosperous as Ephraim and Manasseh.’” In this way, Jacob put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.
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Genesis 48:13-14
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13 Then he positioned the boys in front of Jacob. With his right hand he directed Ephraim toward Jacob’s left hand, and with his left hand he put Manasseh at Jacob’s right hand. 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.
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Genesis 48:5
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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.
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