51 Joseph named the firstborn [a]Manasseh; “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all of my father’s household.”

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  1. Genesis 41:51 I.e., making to forget

51 Joseph named his firstborn(A) Manasseh[a](B) and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”

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  1. Genesis 41:51 Manasseh sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for forget.

52 And he named the second [a]Ephraim; “For,” he said, “(A)God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

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  1. Genesis 41:52 I.e., fruitfulness

52 The second son he named Ephraim[a](A) and said, “It is because God has made me fruitful(B) in the land of my suffering.”

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  1. Genesis 41:52 Ephraim sounds like the Hebrew for twice fruitful.

For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, (A)Manasseh and Ephraim, and they did not give a portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to live in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.

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for Joseph’s descendants had become two tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim.(A) The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.(B)

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