2009-08-10T14:15:10-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/ephraim/ http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2041:50-52&version=NIV 2009-08-10T14:15:10-05:00 In Genesis we are told of two of Joseph's sons he and Asenath had. The firstborn was Manasseh, the second Ephraim. When he named him Ephraim he declared that it was because God made him fruitful in the land of his suffering.