Genesis 41:49

Modern

So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.

Traditional

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

Literal

And Joseph stored up grain like the sand of the sea, multiplying exceedingly, until that he stopped counting, for it was without number.

Latin

Tantaque fuit abundantia tritici, ut arenæ maris coæquaretur, et copia mensuram excederet.

Hebrew

English

So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.

Pharaoh's dreams were fulfilled just as Joseph had explained.

Theme notes and profiles

Psalm 78:27
He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
Judges 6:5
For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
Judges 7:12
Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
1 Samuel 13:5
Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with 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.
Jeremiah 33:22
As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
Job 1:3
…and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

Joseph: Son of Jacob, ruler in Egypt