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Genesis 41:51
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KJ21
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh [that is, Forgetting], “For God,” said he, “hath made me forget all my toil and all my father’s house.”
ASV
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.
AMP
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh (causing to forget), for he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and hardship and all [the sorrow of the loss of] my father’s household.”
AMPC
And Joseph called the firstborn Manasseh [making to forget], For God, said he, has made me forget all my toil and hardship and all my father’s house.
BRG
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.
CSB
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh and said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and my whole family.”
CSBA
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh and said, ‘God has made me forget all my hardship and my whole family.’
CEB
Joseph named the oldest son Manasseh, “because,” he said, “God has helped me forget all of my troubles and everyone in my father’s household.”
CJB
Yosef called the firstborn M’nasheh [causing to forget], “Because God has caused me to forget all the troubles I suffered at the hands of my family.”
CEV
Their first son was named Manasseh, which means, “God has let me forget all my troubles and my family back home.”
DARBY
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh—For God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.
DRA
And he called the name of the firstborn Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father's house.
ERV
Joseph named the first son Manasseh. He was given this name because Joseph said, “God made me forget all my hard work and everything back home in my father’s house.”
EASY
Joseph called his firstborn son Manasseh. Joseph said, ‘God has made me forget all the trouble that my family has given to me.’
EHV
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, because he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s house.”
ESV
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.”
ESVUK
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.”
EXB
Joseph named the ·first son [firstborn] Manasseh [C sounds like “made me forget” in Hebrew] and said, “God has made me forget all the troubles I have had and all ·my father’s family [L the house of my father].”
GNV
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: for God, said he, hath made me forget all my labor and all my father’s household.
GW
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.
GNT
He said, “God has made me forget all my sufferings and all my father's family”; so he named his first son Manasseh.
HCSB
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, meaning, “God has made me forget all my hardship in my father’s house.”
ICB
Joseph named the first son Manasseh. Joseph said, “God has made me forget all the troubles I have had and all my father’s family.”
ISV
Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh because, he said, “God has made me forget all of my hard life and my father’s house.”
JUB
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.
KJV
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.
AKJV
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.
LSB
And Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”
LEB
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, for he said, “God has caused me to forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.”
TLB
Joseph named his oldest son Manasseh (meaning “Made to Forget”—what he meant was that God had made up to him for all the anguish of his youth, and for the loss of his father’s home).
MSG
Joseph had two sons born to him before the years of famine came. Asenath, daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, was their mother. Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh (Forget), saying, “God made me forget all my hardships and my parental home.” He named his second son Ephraim (Double Prosperity), saying, “God has prospered me in the land of my sorrow.”
MEV
Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For God,” he said, “has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s house.”
NOG
Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh [He Helps Me Forget], because Elohim helped him forget all his troubles and all about his father’s family.
NABRE
Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh, meaning, “God has made me forget entirely my troubles and my father’s house”;
NASB
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh; “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all of my father’s household.”
NASB1995
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”
NCB
Joseph called the firstborn Manasseh for, he said, “God has made me forget all my difficulties and my father’s entire family.”
NCV
Joseph named the first son Manasseh and said, “God has made me forget all the troubles I have had and all my father’s family.”
NET
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “Certainly God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s house.”
NIRV
Joseph named his first son Manasseh. That’s because he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and my father’s whole family.”
NIV
Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”
NIVUK
Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, ‘It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.’
NKJV
Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: “For God has made me forget all my toil and all my father’s house.”
NLV
Joseph gave the first-born the name Manasseh. “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all those of my father’s house.”
NLT
Joseph named his older son Manasseh, for he said, “God has made me forget all my troubles and everyone in my father’s family.”
NRSVA
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, ‘For’, he said, ‘God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.’
NRSVACE
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, ‘For’, he said, ‘God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.’
NRSVCE
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.”
NRSVUE
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.”
OJB
And Yosef called the shem of the bechor Menasheh: For Elohim, said he nashani, (hath made me forget) all my amal, and kol bais Avi.
RGT
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn “Manasseh”. “For God,” said he, “has made me forget all my labor and all my father’s household.”
RSV
Joseph called the name of the first-born Manas′seh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.”
RSVCE
Joseph called the name of the first-born Manas′seh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.”
TLV
Joseph named his first-born Manasseh, “because God has caused me to forget all my trouble and all my father’s house.”
VOICE
Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh because he said, “God has made me forget all about my hardship and all of my father’s family.”
WEB
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.”
WYC
And Joseph called the name of the first begotten son, Manasseh, and said, God hath made me to forget all my travails, and the house of my father; (And Joseph named his first-born son Manasseh, and said, For God hath made me forget all my travails, or all my troubles, and my father’s household, or my family;)
YLT
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;'
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