Genesis 41:51
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New International Version (©1984)
Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, "It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household."

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh [He Helps Me Forget], because God helped him forget all his troubles and all about his father's family.

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, 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.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he called the name of the first born Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father's house.

Darby Bible 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.

English Revised Version
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For, said he, God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Joseph called the name of the first-born 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."

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;'

Geneva Study Bible

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my {o} father's house.

(o) Nonetheless, his father's house was the true Church of God: yet the company of the wicked and prosperity caused him to forget it.

King James Translators' Notes

Manasseh: that is, Forgetting

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

41:46-57 In the names of his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, Joseph owned the Divine providence. 1. He was made to forget his misery. 2. He was made fruitful in the land of his affliction. The seven plenteous years came, and were ended. We ought to look forward to the end of the days, both of our prosperity and of our opportunity. We must not be secure in prosperity, nor slothful in making good use of opportunity. Years of plenty will end; what thy hand finds to do, do it; and gather in gathering time. The dearth came, and the famine was not only in Egypt, but in other lands. Joseph was diligent in laying up, while the plenty lasted. He was prudent and careful in giving out, when the famine came. Joseph was engaged in useful and important labours. Yet it was in the midst of this his activity that his father Jacob said, Joseph is not! What a large portion of our troubles would be done away if we knew the whole truth! Let these events lead us to Jesus. There is a famine of the bread of life throughout the whole earth. Go to Jesus, and what he bids you, do. Attend to His voice, apply to him; he will open his treasures, and satisfy with goodness the hungry soul of every age and nation, without money and without price. But those who slight this provision must starve, and his enemies will be destroyed.


Genesis 41:50 Now before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
Genesis 41:52 He named the second Ephraim, "For," he said, "God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction." (NASB ©1995)

Father's First Firstborn First-Born Forget Hard Hardship House Household Joseph Labour Manasseh Manas'seh Memory Toil Trouble


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.

called. A.M. 2292. B.C. 1712. 48:5,13,14,18-20 De 33:17

Manasseh. i.e., Forgetting. See on ver. 30 Ps 45:10 Isa 57:16

forget. Ps 30:5,11 Pr 31:7 Isa 65:16

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