1
Now it came about after these things that Joseph was told, "Behold, your father is sick." So he took his two sons
aManasseh and Ephraim with him.
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Genesis 41:51, Genesis 41:52, Joshua 14:4
Genesis 41
51
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household."
Genesis 41
52
He named the second Ephraim, "For," he said, "aGod has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
Joshua 14
4
For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, aManasseh and Ephraim, and they did not give a portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to live in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.