Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 41:51
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Genesis41:51
51 And Joseph called the name of the first-born, Manasseh: for God, said he, hath made me forget all my toyl, and all my fathers house .
(i. e.) Hath expelled all sorrowful remembrance of it by my present comfort and glory.
(i. e.) The toil of my fathers house, or the toil and misery which for many years I have endured by means of my fathers family, and my own brethren who sold me hither. A figure called Hendyadis.
Marginal references: That is, forgetting.
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