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Asenath Joseph's Egyptian Wife, Mother of Two Tribes
About Asenath
Asenath was the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On, and Pharaoh gave her to Joseph on the day he set him over Egypt. She bore Manasseh and Ephraim before the famine years began, and Jacob later claimed both of her sons as his own. Two of the twelve tribes of Israel descend from an Egyptian priest's daughter.
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Two Tribes from Outside
Nothing Asenath says is recorded, and her father served a temple of the sun. Yet Jacob laid his hands on her two sons and said let them be counted as Reuben and Simeon are, and the map of Israel afterwards carries their names. The household was widened before the nation was counted.
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