Genesis 41:49

Joseph stored up grain as the sand of the sea, in great quantities, until he ceased to keep account, because it could not be measured.

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In The King James Version

And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

In Context

48and Joseph gathered up all the food of the seven plenteous years, which were in the land of Egypt, and stored the food in the cities, putting in each city the products of the fields about it.

50Two sons were born to Joseph and Asenath before the year of famine came.

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Cross References

Psalms 78:27He rained meat upon them like dust, winged bird like the sand of the sea.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:47-57

The Famine in Egypt and Canaan. ( b. c. 1706.) 46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. 47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. 48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. 49 And Joseph gathered… Read the whole commentary →

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