Genesis 41:49

Joseph stored up grain like the sand of the sea, so much that he stopped counting, because it was beyond counting.

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

In Context

48He gathered up all the food of the seven years that was in the land of Egypt and put the food in the cities. He put into each city the food from the fields that surrounded it.

50Joseph had two sons before the years of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

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Cross References

Judges 6:5Whenever they and their livestock and tents came up, they would come as a swarm of locusts, and it was impossible to count either the people or their camels. They invaded the land in order to destroy it.

1 Samuel 13:5The Philistines gathered together to fight against Israel, with three thousand chariots, six thousand men to drive the chariots, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They came up and encamped at Michmash, east of Beth Aven.

Psalms 78:27He rained down meat on them like dust, 1 birds as numerous as the sands of the sea. 1

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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