I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the city gates of their enemies.
Genesis 41:49 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance #– #like the sand of the sea #– #that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea: and the plenty exceeded measure. |
I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the city gates of their enemies.
Joseph gathered all the excess food in the land of Egypt during the seven years and put it in the cities. He put the food in every city from the fields around it.
Two sons were born to Joseph before the years of famine arrived. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest at On, bore them to him.
His estate included seven thousand sheep and goats, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man among all the people of the east.
Even as the stars of heaven cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so too I will make innumerable the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who minister to me.’
For the Midianites came with their cattle and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were without number, and they entered the land to lay waste to it.
Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the people of the east had settled down in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.
The Philistines also gathered to fight against Israel: 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. ,