Jacob’s family tree: twelve sons, Dinah and their mothers
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Joseph’s family: Asenath, Manasseh and Ephraim
Connect Joseph, son of Jacob and Rachel, with his wife Asenath and their sons Manasseh and Ephraim.
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Manasseh is the firstborn and Ephraim the second son of Joseph and Asenath. This Manasseh is a different person from the later king of Judah with the same name.
In focusJoseph, son of Jacob
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Jacob Jacob is the father of Joseph.
Source: Genesis 35:22; Genesis 35:24
While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
Read Genesis 35:22The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
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Rachel Rachel is the mother of Joseph.
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Asenath Joseph is the husband of Asenath.
Source: Genesis 41:45
Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
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Manasseh, son of Joseph Joseph is the father of Manasseh.
Source: Genesis 41:50; Genesis 41:51
To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
Read Genesis 41:50Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”
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Ephraim, son of Joseph Joseph is the father of Ephraim.
Source: Genesis 41:50; Genesis 41:52
To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
Read Genesis 41:50The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
Read Genesis 41:52
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Jacob is the father of Joseph.
Source: Genesis 35:22; Genesis 35:24
While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
Read Genesis 35:22The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
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Rachel is the mother of Joseph.
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Jacob is the husband of Rachel.
Source: Genesis 29:28
Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
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Joseph is the husband of Asenath.
Source: Genesis 41:45
Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
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Joseph is the father of Manasseh.
Source: Genesis 41:50; Genesis 41:51
To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
Read Genesis 41:50Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”
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Asenath is the mother of Manasseh.
Source: Genesis 41:50; Genesis 41:51
To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
Read Genesis 41:50Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”
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Joseph is the father of Ephraim.
Source: Genesis 41:50; Genesis 41:52
To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
Read Genesis 41:50The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
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Asenath is the mother of Ephraim.
Source: Genesis 41:50; Genesis 41:52
To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
Read Genesis 41:50The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
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Manasseh is the brother of Ephraim.
Source: Genesis 41:50; Genesis 41:51; Genesis 41:52
To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
Read Genesis 41:50Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”
Read Genesis 41:51The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
Read Genesis 41:52
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