I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies,
Genesis 41:49 - New Revised Standard Version So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance—like the sand of the sea—that he stopped measuring it; 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 I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies,
He gathered up all the food of the seven years when there was plenty in the land of Egypt, and stored up food in the cities; he stored up in every city the food from the fields around it.
Before the years of famine came, Joseph had two sons, whom Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and very many servants; so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.
he rained flesh upon them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;
Just as the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will increase the offspring of my servant David, and the Levites who minister to me.
For they and their livestock would come up, and they would even bring their tents, as thick as locusts; neither they nor their camels could be counted; so they wasted the land as they came in.
The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east lay along the valley as thick as locusts; and their camels were without number, countless as the sand on the seashore.
The Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude; they came up and encamped at Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.