Genesis 41:51
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.””
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“Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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;'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 41:51 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 41:30but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.
- Genesis 48:5And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
- Genesis 48:13And Joseph took both of them—with Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand—and brought them close to him.
- Genesis 48:18“Not so, my father!” Joseph said. “This one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”
- Numbers 26:28The descendants of Joseph included the clans of Manasseh and Ephraim.
- Deuteronomy 33:17His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”
- Joshua 14:4The descendants of Joseph became two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion of the land was given to the Levites, except for cities in which to live, along with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.
- Joshua 17:1Now this was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn son, namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because Machir was a man of war.
- Job 11:16For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.
- Psalms 30:5For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
- Psalms 30:11You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
- Psalms 45:10Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
- Proverbs 31:7Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
- Isaiah 57:16For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.
- Isaiah 65:16Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth, and whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the former troubles will be forgotten and hidden from My sight.
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