Genesis 41:49-51
Wycliffe Bible
49 and so great abundance was of wheat (and there was such a great abundance of corn, or of grain), that it was made even to the gravel, (or the sand,) of the sea, and the plenty passed (any) measure.
50 Soothly two sons were born to Joseph before that the hunger came, which Asenath, the daughter of Potipherah, a priest of Heliopolis, childed to him (bare for him).
51 And Joseph called the name of the first begotten son, Manasseh, and said, God hath made me to forget all my travails, and the house of my father; (And Joseph named his first-born son Manasseh, and said, For God hath made me forget all my travails, or all my troubles, and my father’s household, or my family;)
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Genesis 41:49-51
New International Version
49 Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea;(A) it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.
50 Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.(B) 51 Joseph named his firstborn(C) Manasseh[a](D) and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”
Footnotes
- Genesis 41:51 Manasseh sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for forget.
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