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51 Joseph named his older son Manasseh,[a] for he said, “God has made me forget all my troubles and everyone in my father’s family.” 52 Joseph named his second son Ephraim,[b] for he said, “God has made me fruitful in this land of my grief.”

53 At last the seven years of bumper crops throughout the land of Egypt came to an end.

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Footnotes

  1. 41:51 Manasseh sounds like a Hebrew term that means “causing to forget.”
  2. 41:52 Ephraim sounds like a Hebrew term that means “fruitful.”

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