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Genesis 41:49

Joseph
WisdomThe future and plans

47 During the seven years of abundance, the land brought forth bountifully.

48 During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.

So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.

50 Before the years of famine arrived, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

51 Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”

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BSB
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.
KJV
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
WEB
Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
ASV
And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number.
DARBY
And Joseph laid up corn as sand of the sea exceeding much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number.
BLB
And Joseph stored up grain like the sand of the sea, multiplying exceedingly, until that he stopped counting, for [it was] without number.
ÅB
Så hopet da Josef opp korn som havets sand, i svære mengder, inntil de holdt opp med å telle; for det var ikke tall på det.
OTB
Josef lagret opp enorme mengder korn, som sanden ved havet; det var så mye at han sluttet å måle det fordi det var uten mål.
B1930
Så hopet da Josef op korn som havets sand, i svære mengder, inntil de holdt op med å telle; for det var ikke tall på det.

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Cross references

  • Psalms 78:27

    He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

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  • 1 Samuel 13:5

    Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

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  • Genesis 22:17

    I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.

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  • Judges 7:12

    Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.

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  • Judges 6:5

    For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.

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  • Jeremiah 33:22

    As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”

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  • Job 1:3

    and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

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