48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, he laid up in the same.
49 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
50 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh,{'Manasseh' sounds like the Hebrew for 'forget.'} 'For,' he said, 'God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.'
52 The name of the second, he called Ephraim{'Ephraim' sounds like the Hebrew for 'twice fruitful.'}: 'For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.'
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