Genesis 41:49 - The Scriptures 2009

⁴⁹ Thus Yosĕph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he ceased counting, 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 I shall certainly bless you, and I shall certainly increase your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore, and let your seed possess the gate of their enemies.

Genesis 41:48

And he gathered all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Mitsrayim, and laid up the food in the cities. He laid up in every city the food of the fields which surrounded them.

Genesis 41:50

And to Yosĕph were born two sons before the years of scarcity of food came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him.

Job 1:3

And his possessions were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and a very large body of servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

Psalm 78:27

And He rained meat on them like the dust, And winged birds like the sand of the seas,

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of the heavens is not counted, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I increase the descendants of Dawiḏ My servant and the Lĕwites who attend upon Me.’ ”

Judges 6:5

For they came up with their livestock and their tents, coming in as numerous as locusts. And they and their camels were without number. And they came into the land to destroy it.

Judges 7:12

And Miḏyan and Amalĕq, and all the people of the East, were lying in the valley as many as locusts. And their camels were as numerous as the sand by the seashore.

1 Samuel 13:5

And the Philistines gathered to fight Yisra’ĕl, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people as numerous as the sand on the seashore. And they came up and encamped in Miḵmash, east of Bĕyth Awen.