I will truly bless you. I will give you many, many descendants, [126] as many as the stars in the sky. There will be as many people as sand on the seashore. And your people will live in cities that they take from their enemies.
Genesis 41:49 - Easy To Read Version Joseph stored very much grain. It was like the sands of the sea. He stored so much grain that it could not be measured. 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 truly bless you. I will give you many, many descendants, [126] as many as the stars in the sky. There will be as many people as sand on the seashore. And your people will live in cities that they take from their enemies.
And Joseph saved the food in Egypt during those seven years. Joseph stored the food in the cities. In every city, Joseph stored grain that grew in the fields around the city.
Joseph’s wife was Asenath. She was the daughter of Potiphera, the priest in the city of On. Before the first year of hunger came, Joseph and Asenath had two sons.
Job owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 1,000 bulls, and 500 female donkeys. He had many servants. Job was the richest man in the east.
But I will give many descendants to my servant David and to the family group of Levi. They will be as many as the stars in the sky—no person can count all those stars. And they will be as many as the pieces of sand on the seashore—no person can count those pieces of sand.”
The people of Midian came up and camped in the land. They brought their families and their animals with them. They were as many as swarms of locusts! There were so many of those people and their camels that it was not possible to count them. All of these people came into the land and ruined it.
The people of Midian, the people of Amalek, and all the other people from the east were camped in that valley. There were so many people that they seemed like a swarm of locusts. [69] It seemed like those people had as many camels as there are grains of sand on the seashore.
The Philistines gathered to fight Israel. The Philistines camped at Micmash, east of Beth Aven. The Philistines had 3,000 [120] chariots and 6,000 horse soldiers. There were so many Philistines that they were like sand on the seashore.