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.”

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