Genesis 41:51

In 11 translations

BSB

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”Manasseh sounds like the Hebrew for making to forget.

KJV

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.Manasseh: that is, Forgetting

WEB

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.”“Manasseh” sounds like the Hebrew for “forget”.

ASV

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.

LSV

and Joseph calls the name of the firstborn Manasseh: “For God has made me to forget all my labor, and all the house of my father”;

YLT

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;'

DBY

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh — For God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.Elohim

DRC

And he called the name of the firstborn Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father’s house.

GNV

And Ioseph called the name of the first borne Manasseh: for God, said he, hath made me forget all my labour and al my fathers houshold.

JPS

And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: 'for God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.'

LXXE

And Joseph called the name of the first-born, Manasse; for God, said he, has made me forget all my toils, and all my father's house.Gr. things belong to my father.

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WLC

וַיִּקְרָ֥א יוֹסֵ֛ף אֶת־שֵׁ֥ם הַבְּכ֖וֹר מְנַשֶּׁ֑ה כִּֽי־נַשַּׁ֤נִי אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־כָּל־עֲמָלִ֔י וְאֵ֖ת כָּל־בֵּ֥ית אָבִֽי׃

LXX-Br

Ἐκάλεσε δὲ Ἰωσὴφ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ πρωτοτόκου, Μανασσῆ· ὅτι ἐπιλαθέσθαι με ἐποίησεν ὁ Θεὸς πάντων τῶν πόνων μου, καὶ πάντων τῶν τοῦ πατρός μου·

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• Psalms 30:5For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
• Proverbs 31:7Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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,
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Genesis 48:18–20“Not so, my father!” Joseph said. “This one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.” But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great;…
• Genesis 48:13–14And 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. But Israel stretched out his right hand and…

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