Genesis 41:51
Modern Translations
New International Version
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
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
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.”

Berean Study Bible
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”

New American Standard Bible
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh; “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all of my father’s household.”

NASB 1995
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household."

NASB 1977
And Joseph named the first-born Manasseh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”

Amplified Bible
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.”

Christian Standard Bible
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh and said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and my whole family.”

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

Contemporary English Version
Their first son was named Manasseh, which means, "God has let me forget all my troubles and my family back home."

Good News Translation
He said, "God has made me forget all my sufferings and all my father's family"; so he named his first son Manasseh.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
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.

International Standard Version
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
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, "Certainly God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's house."
Classic Translations
King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: “For God has made me forget all my toil and all my father’s house.”

King James 2000 Bible
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.

New Heart English Bible
Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: "For God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father?s household."

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."

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.

A Faithful Version
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, saying, "For God has made me forget all my toil and all 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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And Ioseph called the name of the first borne Manasseh: for God, said he, hath made me forget all my labour & al my fathers houshold.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And Ioseph called the name of the first sonne, Manasse: for God sayde he hath made me forget al my labour, and all my fathers housholde.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And the first called he Manasses: for God (sayde he) hath caused me to forget all my laboure, and all my fathers house.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And he called the name of the first sonne Manasse for God (sayde he) hath made me forgett all my laboure and all my fathers husholde.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and Joseph calls the name of the firstborn Manasseh: “For God has made me to forget all my labor, and all the house of my father”;

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;'

Smith's Literal Translation
And Joseph will call the name of the first-born, Manasseh; for God made me forget all my toils and all my father's house.

Catholic Translations
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And he called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has caused me to forget all my labors and the house of my father.”

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And Yoseph called the name of his firstborn son Manasheh, because, “God made me forget all my labor and all the house of my father.”

Lamsa Bible
And Joseph called the name of his first-born Manasseh; For God, said he, has made me forget all my troubles, and all my father's house.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: 'for God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Joseph called the name of the first-born, Manasse; for God, said he, has made me forget all my toils, and all my father's house.
















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