Genesis 41:51
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.In other versions
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.
ASV
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.
BBE
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh -- For God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.
DBY
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."
WEB
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;'
YLT
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.
ENG
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.
WBT
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”
BSB
In context
49And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
50And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
51And 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.
52And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
53And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
Cross-references
People in this verse
- Joseph
- Manasseh
