Genesis 41:49-51
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
49 Joseph collected grain like the sands of the sea, so much that at last he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.
50 Before the famine years set in, Joseph became the father of two sons, borne to him by Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis.(A) 51 Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh,[a] meaning, “God has made me forget entirely my troubles and my father’s house”;
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- 41:51 Manasseh: an allusion to this name is in the Hebrew expression, nishshani, “he made me forget.”
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