Genesis 41:50 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 41:50

Before the years of famine arrived, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

BSB

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ASV

And unto Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, bare unto him.

KJV

And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti–pherah priest of On bare unto him.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Two sons - Whom he called by names expressive of God’s particular and bountiful providence towards him. Manasseh, מנשה menashsheh, signifies forgetfulness, from נשה nashah, to forget; and Ephraim, אפרים ephrayim, fruitfulness, from פרה parah, to be fruitful; and he called his sons by these names, because God had enabled him to forget all his toil, disgrace, and affliction, and had made him fruitful in the very land in which he had suffered the greatest misfortune and indignities.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It had been the land of his affliction, and in some sense it was still so, for it was not Canaan, the land of promise. His distance from his father was still his affliction. Note, Light is sometimes sown for the righteous in a barren and unlikely soil; and yet if God sow it, and water it, it will come up again.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּלְיוֹסֵ֤ף	u.le.yo.Sef	and to Joseph	H3130 →
יֻלַּד֙	yu.Lad	it was born	H3205 →
שְׁנֵ֣י	she.Nei	two	H8147 →
בָנִ֔ים	va.Nim	sons	H1121 →
בְּטֶ֥רֶם	be.Te.rem	<in> before	H2962 →
תָּב֖וֹא	ta.Vo'	it came	H935 →
שְׁנַ֣ת	she.Nat	[the] year of	H8141 →
הָרָעָ֑ב	ha.ra.'Av	<the> famine	H7458 →
אֲשֶׁ֤ר	'a.Sher	whom	H834 →
יָֽלְדָה־	Yal.dah-	she bore	H3205 →
לּוֹ֙	lo	to <the> him
אָֽסְנַ֔ת	'a.se.Nat	Asenath	H621 →
בַּת־	bat-	[the] daughter of	H1323 →
פּ֥וֹטִי	Po.ti	Poti-	H6319 →
פֶ֖רַע	Fe.ra'	-phera	H6319 →
כֹּהֵ֥ן	ko.Hen	[the] priest of	H3548 →
אֽוֹן׃	'on	On	H204 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 48:5
And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
leads to
- Genesis 41:50–52
  Before the years of famine arrived, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 46:20
  Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Joshua 14:4
  The descendants of Joseph became two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion of the land was given to the Levites, except for cities in which to live, along with pasturelands for their flocks…
- Joshua 13:7
  Now therefore divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”
Through
2 Samuel 8:18
Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priestly leaders.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 30:14
  We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”
- 2 Samuel 15:18
  and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.
- 1 Chronicles 18:17
  Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief officials at the king’s side.
- 2 Samuel 20:7
  So Joab’s men, along with the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and all the mighty men, marched out of Jerusalem in pursuit of Sheba son of Bichri.

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