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50 Two sons were born to Joseph before the first year of famine arrived. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, gave birth to them. 51 Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, because he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s house.”[a] 52 He named the second son Ephraim. He said, “Yes, God has made me fruitful in the land where I was afflicted.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 41:51 Manasseh sounds like the Hebrew for forget.
  2. Genesis 41:52 Ephraim sounds like the Hebrew for twice fruitful.