Genesis 41:45-52 ▼

45 Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah. And he gave him Asenath the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as a wife. So Joseph went out through the land of Egypt.

46 Joseph was thirty years old when he began to serve Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph left the presence of Pharaoh and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

47 During the seven years of abundance the land produced large harvests.

48 And he collected all the food during the seven years when there was abundance in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He placed in every city the food from the fields surrounding it.

49 Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, because it could not be measured.

50 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: |For God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.|

52 And the name of the second he called Ephraim: |For God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.|