Genesis 41:49

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

In fact, there was so much grain that they stopped keeping record, because it was like counting the grains of sand along the beach.

Cross References

Genesis 22:17

“I will bless you and give you such a large family, that some day your descendants will be more numerous than the stars in the sky or the grains of sand along the beach. They will defeat their enemies and take over the cities where their enemies live.

Genesis 41:48

Joseph collected and stored up the extra grain in the cities of Egypt near the fields where it was harvested.

Genesis 41:50

Joseph and his wife had two sons before the famine began.

Job 1:3

He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred pair of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and a large number of servants. He was the richest person in the East.

Psalm 78:27

and it brought birds that covered the ground, like sand on the beach.

Jeremiah 33:22

and there will be more descendants of David and of the priests from the Levi tribe than stars in the sky or grains of sand on the beach.

Judges 7:12

The camp was huge. The Midianites, Amalekites, and other eastern nations covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. And it would be easier to count the grains of sand on a beach than to count their camels.

1 Samuel 13:5

The Philistines called their army together to fight Israel. They had three thousand chariots, six thousand cavalry, and as many foot soldiers as there are grains of sand on the beach. They went to Michmash and set up camp there east of Beth-Aven.