50 Two sons were born to Joseph before the years of famine arrived.(A) Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest at On, bore them to him. 51 Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh[a] and said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and my whole family.” 52 And the second son he named Ephraim[b] and said, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

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Footnotes

  1. 41:51 In Hb, the name Manasseh sounds like the verb “forget.”
  2. 41:52 In Hb, the name Ephraim sounds like the word for “fruitful.”

20 Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt. They were born to him by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, a priest at On.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 46:20 Or Heliopolis

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