Genesis 41:51
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New International Version (©2011)
Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, "It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Joseph named his older son Manasseh, for he said, "God has made me forget all my troubles and everyone in my father's family."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, meaning, "God has made me forget all my hardship in my father's house."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh because, he said, "God has made me forget all of my hard life and my father's house."

NET Bible (©2006)
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, "Certainly God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's house."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh [He Helps Me Forget], because God helped him forget all his troubles and all about his father's family.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

American King James Version
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he called the name of the first born Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father's house.

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

English Revised Version
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For, said he, God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

World English Bible
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."

Young's Literal Translation
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;'

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh,.... Which signifies forgetfulness, as the reason of it shows:

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Geneva Study Bible

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my {o} father's house.

(o) Nonetheless, his father's house was the true Church of God: yet the company of the wicked and prosperity caused him to forget it.

King James Translators' Notes

Manasseh: that is, Forgetting

Genesis 41:51 Parallel Commentaries
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The Sons of Joseph
50And to Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bore to him. 51And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. 52And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

Genesis 41:50 Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
Genesis 41:52 The second son he named Ephraim and said, "It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering."
Genesis 48:1 Some time later Joseph was told, "Your father is ill." So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him.
Genesis 48:14 But Israel reached out his right hand and put it on Ephraim's head, though he was the younger, and crossing his arms, he put his left hand on Manasseh's head, even though Manasseh was the firstborn.
Joshua 14:4 for Joseph's descendants had become two tribes--Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.
Joshua 17:1 This was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph's firstborn, that is, for Makir, Manasseh's firstborn. Makir was the ancestor of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because the Makirites were great soldiers.
1 Samuel 1:20 So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, "Because I asked the LORD for him."