45 And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name [a]Zaphnath-Paaneah. And he gave him as a wife (A)Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On. So Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 41:45 Probably Egyptian for God Speaks and He Lives

50 (A)And to Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him. 51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn [a]Manasseh: “For God has made me forget all my toil and all my (B)father’s house.” 52 And the name of the second he called [b]Ephraim: “For God has caused me to be (C)fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

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  1. Genesis 41:51 Lit. Making Forgetful
  2. Genesis 41:52 Lit. Fruitfulness

Jacob Blesses Joseph’s Sons(A)

48 Now it came to pass after these things that Joseph was told, “Indeed your father is sick”; and he took with him his two sons, (B)Manasseh and Ephraim.

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