Genesis 41:49 Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.

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New International Version
Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.

New American Standard Bible
Thus Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.

King James Bible
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance--like the sand of the sea--that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.

International Standard Version
Joseph stored up so much grain—like sand on the seashore in so much abundance!—that he stopped keeping records because it was proving to be impossible to measure how much they were gathering.

American Standard Version
And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure.

Darby Bible Translation
And Joseph laid up corn as sand of the sea exceeding much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number.

Young's Literal Translation
and Joseph gathereth corn as sand of the sea, multiplying exceedingly, until that he hath ceased to number, for there is no number.

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Context

The Seven Years of Plenty

46And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. 47And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. 48And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. 49And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

Cross References

Genesis 41:48
And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

Genesis 41:50
And to Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bore to him.

Treasury of Scripture

And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

Genesis 22:17 That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heaven...

Judges 6:5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude...

Judges 7:12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude...

1 Samuel 13:5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen...

Psalm 78:27 He rained flesh also on them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

Jeremiah 33:22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant...

Strong's Concordance

And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for [it was] without number.

Topical Bible

Abundance Beyond Ceased Corn Counting Exceeding Exceedingly Gathered Gathereth Got Grain Huge Joseph Keeping Laid Measure Measured Measuring Multiplying Numbering Quantities Records Sand Stopped Store Stored Thus

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Genesis Chapter 41 Verse 49

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OT Law: Genesis 41:49 Joseph laid up grain as the sand (Gen. Ge Gn)

Genesis 41:48

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