Genesis 41:49 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴⁹ And Joseph laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁹ And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁹ And Joseph gathered grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it could not be measured.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁹ And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number.

Common English Bible

⁴⁹ Joseph amassed grain like the sand of the sea. There was so much that he stopped trying to measure it because it was beyond measuring.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁹ And there was such a great abundance of wheat that it was comparable to the sands of the sea, and its bounty exceeded all measure.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁹ And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea: and the plenty exceeded measure.

Genesis 41:49 Cross References

Genesis 22:17

that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

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 unto Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On bare unto him.

Job 1:3

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east

Psalm 78:27

He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged fowl as the sand of the seas:

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, and the Levites that minister unto me.

Judges 6:5

For they came up with their cattle and their tents, they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.

Judges 7:12

And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea shore for multitude.

1 Samuel 13:5

And the Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward of Beth-aven.