51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: for God, said he, hath made me forget all my labor and all my [a]father’s household.

52 Also he called the name of the second, Ephraim: For God, said he, hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.

53 ¶ So the seven years of the plenty that was in the land of Egypt were ended.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 41:51 Notwithstanding that his father’s house was the true Church of God: yet the company of the wicked and prosperity caused him to forget it.

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