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Asenath , in the Bible, Poti-phera's daughter, the Egyptian wife of Joseph, mother of Manasseh and Ephraim. Her betrothal to Joseph and conversion to Judaism are the subject of Joseph and Asenath, one of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha .

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Asenath. Daughter of the Egyptian high priest of On and wife of Joseph. Her two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, were the patriarchs of their eponymous tribes.

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